Kennedy Creek Placer Mine

The Kennedy Creek Placer Mine is a gold mine located in Missoula county, Montana at an elevation of 3,199 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Kennedy Creek Placer Mine

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Montana
County: Missoula
District: Nine Mile District

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

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Ownership

Owner Name: Kennedy Creek Gold Mining Co.

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1880
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: Nine Mile Divide

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: BEDROCK ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN $4 PER YARD IN AU

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Production): MINE HAD BEEN PRODUCING ON A SMALL SCALE IN THE 1900'S. SMALL SCALE OPERATIONS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING INTERMITTENTLY SINCE THAT TIME.

Comment (Deposit): GOLD IS CONTAINED WITHIN THE GROUND MORRAINE OR TILL THAT FLOORS THE BASIN; THIS MATERIAL IS SEEMINGLY GOLD BEARING THROUGHOUT; PIECES ARE USUALLY FLATTENED BUT ROUGH AND IRREGULAR IN SHAPE AND MANY PIECES HAVE QUARTZ ADHERING TO OR EMBEDDED IN THEM, DENOTING THAT THE METAL IS OF COMPARATIVELY LOCAL DERIVATION.

Comment (Workings): AROUND 1910 A DREDGE WAS OPERATED FOR A FEW WEEKS BUT IT WAS ABANDONED TO DUE THE DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED IN MINING.

Comment (Geology): SOURCE OF CONGLOMERATE MATERIAL WAS EVIDENTLY FROM THE UPLAND AND MOUNTAINS TO THE NE WHENCE IT WAS SCOURED OFF THE SURFACE BY GLACIATION.

Comment (Location): NEAR STARK, MONT.

Comment (Deposit): OWING TO THE EXTREME INDURATION OF THE MATERIAL AND THE STICKINESS OF THE MATRIX, DIFFICULTIES ARE ENCOUNTERED IN EXTRACTING THE AU. THIS PROBLEM ALTHOUGH COMMON THROUGHOUT THE NINE MILE DISTRICT IS MOST TROUBLESOME ALONG KENNEDY CREEK. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Reserve-Resource): AREA IN 1910 WAS ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN AT LEAST $5,500,000 IN AU.

References

Reference (Analytical Data): SRC.REF: SCHRADER, F. C., 1911 : US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 470 , PP. 66 .

Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F. C., 1911 , GOLD-BEARING GROUND MORRAINE IN NORTHWESTERN MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 470, PP. 63-69 .

Reference (Deposit): LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 106 - 107 .

Reference (Production): SCHRADER, F. C., 1911 : US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 470 , P. 69 .

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.