The Cedar Creek Placer Mine is a gold mine located in Mineral county, Montana at an elevation of 3,350 feet.
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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: 3,350 Feet (1,021 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 47.14444, -114.96722
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Cedar Creek Placer Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cedar Creek Placer Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Montana
County: Mineral
District: Cedar Creek 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
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1869
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: Bitterroot Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
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 (Workings): SINCE DISCOVERY, GOLD HAS BEEN RECOVERED AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER BY ALMOST EVERY METHOD GENERALLY USED IN THIS COUNTRY.
Comment (Location): APPROX LOCATION, WHERE OREGON GULCH INTERSECTS CEDAR CREEK
Comment (Production): IT HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED THAT PLACER MINES FROM 1867 - 1947 YIELDED AS MUCH AS $10000000 AND AS LITTLE AS LESS THAN $2000000 ALONG CEDAR CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. YIELDS IN 1875 WERE REPORTED TO BE AS HIGH AS $6.00/YD.
Comment (Deposit): MOST IMPORTANT TRIBUTARY OF CEDAR CREEK IS OREGON GULCH ALONG WHICH MANY PLACER CLAIMS ARE INTERMITTENTLY ACTIVE. A SMALLER TRIBUTARY, SNOWSHOE GULCH, HAS ALSO BEEN INTERMITTENTLY ACTIVE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Deposit): PLACER GOLD HAS EXHIBITED EXTREME PURITY. SOME 0.982 FINE GOLD HAS BEEN RECOVERED AND IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THE GOLD TO BE 0.960 TO 0.970 FINE. PLACERS WITHIN CEDAR CREEK DISTRICT ARE INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH NEARBY LODE DEPOSITS.
References
Reference (Deposit): LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 100 - 102
Reference (Production): LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 100 .
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.
