The Russell Placer Claim is a gold mine located in Sanders county, Montana at an elevation of 2,841 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 2,841 Feet (866 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 47.86611, -115.43139
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Russell Placer Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Russell Placer Claim
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Montana
County: Sanders
District: Cabinet District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: B. Russell
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Cabinet Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): GOLD IN THE PLACER GRAVELS OF VERMILLION CREEK HAS BEEN DERIVED PRIMARILY FROM QUARTZ VEINS CARRYING FREE GOLD. GOLD IN CREEK IS PROBABLY OF THREE AGES: THAT WHICH FORMED PLACERS PRIOR TO PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION, THAT WHICH FORMED DURING THE PLEISTOCENE ICE ADVANCE AND THAT WHICH HAS FORMED DUE TO WEATHERING OF THE VEINS SINCE THE ICE SHEET WITHDRAWAL.
Comment (Development): A BECKER-HOPKINS TYPE SUCTION DREDGE WAS ASSEMBLED IN 1946 , BUT WAS DISMANTLED AND MOVED THAT SAME YEAR. THE REASON FOR NOT CONTINUING OPERATIONS WAS REPORTED TO BE THAT THE INTAKE OF THE SUCTION LINE WAS SO OFTEN CLOGGED BY COBBLES THAT THE OPERATIONS WERE NOT PROFITABLE. ; ECON.COM: IT HAS BEEN STATED THAT MUCH OF THE HILLSIDE ALLUVIUM ADJOINING THIS CLAIM CARRIES SUFFICIENT GOLD FOR PROFITABLE WORKING IT COULD BE BROUGHT TO THE WATER OR IF WATER COULD BE BROUGHT TO IT CHEAPLY ENOUGH.
Comment (Production): IN 1946 RECOVERIES AVERAGED 23 CENTS PER CUBIC YARD
Comment (Location): LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE ON VERMILION RIVER
Comment (Reserve-Resource): THE FACT THAT THE SUCTION DREDGE WAS ABLE TO MAKE RECOVERIES AVERAGING 23 CENTS PER CUBIC YARD OF GRAVEL INDICATES THAT CONSIDERABLE GRAVEL REMAINS UNWORKED ABOVE AND BELOW THE CLAIM.
References
Reference (Deposit): LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 136 - 138
Reference (Production): LYDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 136 , 138 .
Principal Gold Districts of Montana
In Montana, 54 mining districts have each have produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold. The largest producers are Butte, Helena, Marysville, and Virginia City, each having produced more than one million ounces. Twenty seven other districts are each credited with between 100,000 and one million ounces of gold production. Read more: Principal Gold Districts of Montana.
