The Prickly Pear Creek Placer is a gold mine located in Jefferson county, Montana.
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Mine Info
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Prickly Pear Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Prickly Pear Creek Placer
Secondary: Golconda Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Montana
County: Jefferson
District: Colorado (Corbin-Wickes) District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Winston Brothers Co. (Yuba Dredge)
Home Office: Between Alhambra And Jefferson City
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1865
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Boulder Batholith
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 1.5 MI S OF E HELENA $0.25/CY AU (1933)
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Location): LAT. LONG. FOR JEFFERSON CITY.
Comment (Production): 1904-1933 INTERMITTENT ACTIVITY
Comment (Development): FIRST FOUND NEAR CLANCY
Comment (Workings): DREDGE, 1933 DRAG-LINE DREDGE 1.5 MILES S. OF E. HELENA; DRY LAND DREDGE ON DUTTON RANCH (1938); YUBA ELECTRIC CONNECTED BUCKET DREDGE ON CREEK S OF CLANCY
References
Reference (Deposit): MBMG MEM 26, P. 42-44.
Reference (Deposit): MBMG MEM 5, P. 24.
Reference (Deposit): MBMG MEM 31, P. 46.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 842, P. 227, 228.
Reference (Deposit): 5) USGS PROF PAPER 428, P. 52.
Reference (Deposit): 6) USGS PROF PAPER 610, P. 153.
Reference (Production): MBMG MEM 26, P. 44.
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.
