Powder Gulch

Prospect in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Iron, REE, Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10245998
MRDS ID W002550
MAS/MILS ID 0300930141
Record type Site
Current site name Powder Gulch
Alternate or previous names Placer Mines Inc.
Related records 10069132

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -112.72729, 45.9674 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buxton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003 N 009 W 33 C Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
Titanium Critical Primary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -112.72729, 45.9674

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM RI 6365,1965, P21

  • Deposit

    ALSO IN SEC 35

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.