Welcome Creek District

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000365
MRDS ID D009574
Record type District
Current site name Welcome Creek District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.75094, 46.58319 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position LAT LONG ARE GENERAL FOR DISTRICT. UNSURVEYED AREA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1959)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cleveland Mountain(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)

Federal lands

Lolo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Welcome Creek Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Granite

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name WELCOME CREEK DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 36.

Beyond USGS

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