The data below represent everything available in the MBMG Abandoned and Inactive Mines (AIM) database.

Sites Table
AIM Id Name Alternate Name District County
LN005586 RED GULCH PLACER LIBBY LINCOLN
MRDS AMLI MILS Latitude Longitude Datum
300530150 48.1817 -115.515
Township Range Section QSection UTM Northing UTM Easting UTM Zone UTM Datum
28N 30W 19 B 5337339 610386 11
Average Elevation Elev Units Land Owner 250K Quad 100K Quad 24K Quad
3400 F KALISPELL LIBBY CABLE MOUNTAIN
Property Type Update Date Who Updated
PLACER 11/5/1997 PAH
Commodities Table
Commodities Identified
GOLD
Agency Info Table
Information
Agency: NF
Region District: R1
Ranger District: LIBBY
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Watershed Code: 17010101
Forest or Resource Area: KOOTENAI
Owner: M
Impact:
Report: The only reference found for this placer was Gibson (1948), p. 124-5 which states "In 1931, hydraulic mining under the direction of James Mahoney was in progress on the west side of Libby Creek, just below the mouth of Little Cherry Creek, on claims belonging to the Red Gulch Mining Co. Water was brought by ditch from Cable and Bear Creeks. Gravels in an old channel of Libby Creek, about 20 feet above the present level were being washed, with a reported yield of 60 cents to $1 a yard. The deposit, as exposed, includes 3 to 10 feet of tightly packed and partly cemented stream gravel, which lies on bedrock and contains the pay streak. This is overlain by 6 to 10 feet of finely laminated silt, containing a few lenses of gravel, and above this is 1 to 6 feet of soil mixed with striated boulders and pebbles, which had rolled down from a deposit of till higher on the slope to the west. Along the bank of Cherry Creek, west of the present workings, pits which had been sunk through till found some gold at the bedrock." The deposit was screened out both because it was a placer and because its location was described approximately
Screening Criteria Table
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Visit: N
Comments: SCREENED OUT: PLACER AND PITS ONLY; MOSTLY PRIVATE.
Rank Table
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Investigator: P. HARGRAVE
Date: 11/5/1997
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End of report. Retrieved 5/2/2024 6:07:43 AM.

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