The Ajax Placer is a gold mine located in Sanders county, Montana at an elevation of 2,799 feet.
About the MRDS Data:
All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 2,799 Feet (853 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 47.85806, -115.45722
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Ajax Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ajax Placer
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: Frank Duvall
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1900
Discovery Method: 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
Type: R
Description: General Structural Grain Of Northward Trending Faults Which Are Parallel To Subparallel To Folds
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sand and Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): GOLD IN CREEK IS PROBABLY OF THREE AGES: THAT WHICH FORMED PLACERS PRIOR TO PCEISTOCENE 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 (Location): ON SOUTH BANK OF VERMILION RIVER A SHORT DISTANCE SOUTH OF GOLD KING PROSPECT
Comment (Development): TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS
Comment (Deposit): ALL KNOWN PLACER PRODUCTION OF CONSEQUENCE FROM THE VERMILION RIVER CAME FROM BELOW THE LYONS CREEK-VERMILION RIVER JUNCTION, SUGGESTING THE SOURCE OF THE PLACER GOLD MAY HAVE BEEN FROM LYONS CREEK AREA ( JOHNS, W. M., 1962 )>
Comment (Workings): ORIGINAL CLAIMS WERE RELOCATED IN 1948
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION AMOUNTS ABOVE WERE OBTAINED BY INTERVIEW WITH A FORMER OPERATOR. FROM 1904 - 1947 , VERMILLION CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES PRODUCED $8200 IN AU.
Comment (Deposit): GOLD IS DISTRIBUTED IN UPPER GRAVELS WITHIN SEVERAL FEET OF THE SURFACE. IT IS BELIEVED TO BE DERIVED FROM GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS NEARBY WHICH CARRY FREE GOLD. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): JOHNS, W. M., 1962 , GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN THE KOOTENAI-FLATHEAD AREA, NORTHWEST MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 29 , P. 33 - 34 .
Reference (Deposit): JOHNS, W. M., 1970 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN AND FLATHEAD COUNTIES, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P 83 - 84 .
Reference (Deposit): LYDEN, CHARLES J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 136 .
Reference (Deposit): CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 01-11-1963
Reference (Deposit): Hobbs, S. W., And Others, 1965 , Geology Of The Coeur D'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 478 , 139 P.
Reference (Production): JOHNS, W. M., 1962 : MONTANA BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , P. 33 .
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.
