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Gold Creek Area

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000511
MRDS ID A010703
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Creek Area
Alternate or previous names Silver Bow Basin

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -134.35757, 58.31364 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juneau(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Juneau B-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Juneau SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Juneau(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lynn Canal(hydrologic unit)

Northern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

LG(Federal land areas administered by LG)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • A PRODUCTIVE PLACER AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 10 SQ MI. NE OF CITY OF JUNEAU LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result FINENESS OF GOLD RANGED FROM .772 TO .802

Nearby scientific data

(1) -134.35757, 58.31364
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880
Year of first production 1880
Year of last production 1940

Mining district

District name Juneau

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS ABOUT 65,000 TOZ AU

Comments on the workings information

  • SOME DRIFT MINING

Comments on development

  • MOST ACTIVITY BETWEEN 1880-1902.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IN STREAM AND ON IMMATURE SLOPES OF HILLS BORDERING STREAMS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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