Lower Willow Creek Placer

Prospect in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10270652
MAS/MILS ID 0300390170
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Willow Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Lower Willow Creek

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.18282, 46.61269 (WGS84)
Elevation 1256
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hall(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 010 N 013 W 24 NW Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NOTE: REFERENCE REPORTS THIS PROSPECT IN SECS. 11-14. HOWEVER, THE HALL 7.5-MIN. TOPO MAP SHOWS LOWER WILLOW CREEK IN SECS. 21-24. THIS RECORD IS PLOTTED IN THE NW/4 SEC. 24 AS SHOWN ON THE TOPO MAP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -113.18282, 46.61269

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Black Pine District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MEMOIR 26, 1948, P. 40.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-SEP-1992 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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