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Rainy Creek Gold-Cinnabar Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, 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 10002461
MRDS ID A013391
Record type Site
Current site name Rainy Creek Gold-Cinnabar Placer
Related records 10282753

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -160.13886, 60.00208 (WGS84)
Elevation 503
Relative position 3.0 MI. SE OF JUNCTION RAINY CREEK AND EEK RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bethel(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bethel A-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bethel SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bethel C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kuskokwim Delta(hydrologic unit)

Lower Kuskokwim River(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Togiak National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-455, LOC. 7. LOCATION IS AT JUNCTION OF RAINY AND ARSENIC CREEKS. PLACER EXTENDS DOWNSTREAM ON RAINY CREEK UNKNOWN DISTANCE, AND VERY SHORT DISTANCE UPSTREAM FROM JUNCTION. 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
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO INFORMATION ON GRADE OF AU OR HG IN PLACER.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -160.13886, 60.00208
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF KUSKOKWIM GROUP. ; REG.COM: SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD IS PROBABLY RECONCENTRATED FROM GLACIAL OR GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSITS. MOST OF CINNABAR COMES FROM LODE DEPOSITS ON ARSENIC CREEK, BUT SOME IS BELIEVED TO BE FROM QUARTZ VEINS 1.25 MI. UPSTREAM ON RAINY CREEK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer Ed Mccann

Mining district

District name Bethel

Comments on the workings information

  • NATURE OF WORKINGS UNDEFINED.

Comments on development

  • EXPLORED AND WORKED IN 1920'S BY NEAL CORRIGAL. SOME PRODUCTION OCCURRED. NO INFORMATION ON HOW LONG PLACER WAS ACTIVE, OR ANY OTHER DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MF-455, LOC. 7 (1972)

  • Deposit

    USGS B 1187, P. 50 (1965)

  • Deposit

    USBM RI 4361, P. 3, 7 (1948)

  • Deposit

    USGS B 1374, P. 48 (1973)

  • Deposit

    USGS I-285 (1959)

  • Other Database

    BAG-MF-455-7

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD AND CINNABAR CONCENTRATES RECOVERED FROM RAINY CREEK, MAINLY BELOW MOUTH OF ARSENIC CREEK. SMALL AMOUNT OF CINNABAR FOUND ABOVE ARSENIC CREEK ON RAINY CREEK.
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1910-1920

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1987 Niles, L.P. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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