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Crooked Creek Area

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000528
MRDS ID A010724
Record type Site
Current site name Crooked Creek Area
Alternate or previous names Includes: Crooked & Donlin Creeks, Snow Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -158.00292, 62.44939 (WGS84)
Relative position CONFLUENCE OF DONLIN & CROOKED CREEKS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iditarod B-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Iditarod SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iditarod(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • A PRODUCTIVE PLACER AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 25 SQ MI.; INCLUDES MINOR TRUBUTARIES OF DONLIN & CROOKED CREEKS; AREA OF INTEREST GENERALLY NE SE OF GIVEN LOCATION LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :49?

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -158.00292, 62.44939
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD MAY HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM CONTACT ZONES AROUND INTRUSIVE BODIES (IN BRECCIA ZONES) ; MAJOR.UNITS: INTERBEDDED GRAYWACKE & SHALE INTRUDED BY ALBITE RHYOLITE DOMES TRENDING NW BETWEEN GULCHES ; REG.COM: GOLD LODES ABOUT 1 MILE SE-NE OF GIVEN LOCATION, MOST LIKELY SOURCE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1910
Year of first production 1910

Mining district

District name Aniak District

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION PROBABLY IN EXCESS OF 125000 DOLLARS GOLD (1956 PRICE)

Comments on the workings information

  • HYDRAULICKING MOST PRODUCTIVE RECOVERY METHOD IN THIS AREA.

Comments on development

  • WORK ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY FROM 1910 TO 1956

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B1374, P.43

  • Deposit

    USGS OFR, P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HIGHEST PRODUCTION FROM SNOW GULCH BENCH PLACERS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Garrison, Michael T. (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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