Slough Creek Drainage Placers

Past Producer in Park 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. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Bibliographic references
  9. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000304
MRDS ID D004303
Record type District
Current site name Slough Creek Drainage Placers
Alternate or previous names Absaroka Primitive Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.1427, 45.07632 (WGS84)
Relative position PLACER DEPOSIT CLAIMS EXTEND 2 MILES NORTH AND 4.5 MILES SOUTH FROM THE MOUTH OF LAKE ABUNDANCE CREEK. OTHER CLAIMS WERE LOCATED ON WOLVERINE CREEK NEAR WOLVERINE PASS, AND AT THE SOUTHEAST END OF LAKE ABUNDANCE, AND ALONG ROCK CREEK AND GOLD RUN CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Roundhead Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Yellowstone Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Park

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.1427, 45.07632

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1890

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEDOW, H, ET AL., 1975, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ABSAROKA PRIM. AREA AND VICINITY, PARK AND SWEETGRASS CO., MONT., USGS BULL 1391-B, P. 101

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 DOYLE, BRIEN (WELLS, JOHN) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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