Wickersham Creek

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  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 10000716
MRDS ID A011357
Record type Site
Current site name Wickersham Creek
Related records 10136541

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.69276, 63.10962 (WGS84)
Relative position This gold placer prospect is on Wickersham Creek about 3 miles upstream from its junction with Butte Creek. The map site is at the midpoint of a mile-long interval of placer activity, in sec. 11, T. 21 S., R. 1 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This is location 69 of Clark and Cobb (1972); and location B-6 of Balen (1990: 34-90).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Matanuska-Susitna(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Healy A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Mount Hayes SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Susitna River(hydrologic unit)

Susitna River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.69276, 63.10962

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Wickersham Creek drains an area of Lower Tertiary granodiorite and granite that cuts Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic deformed and metamorphosed flysch (Wilson and others, 1998). The placer gold was probably derived from the erosion of nearby lode deposits (HE171, HE172, and HE173).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active?

Mining district

District name Valdez Creek

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Placer gold discovered in 1903, apparently in too small quantity to mine.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface workings only.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit, 1914

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-APR-2000 N. Van Wyck Stevens Exploration Management Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.