Woodchopper Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038453
MRDS ID M045828
Record type Site
Current site name Woodchopper Creek
Alternate or previous names Alluvial Gold Inc., Alluvial Placers Inc., Ana May, Aztec, Bennett, Bodacious, Charles, Comet, Cordova, Florence, Gladys, Gold Metal, Gold Star, Herbert, Holstrom, Hunky Dory, Joe, Kelle, Mary Flow, Seward Assn, Sioux, Snowbird, State, Sunshine, Valdez

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -143.40286, 65.29976 (WGS84)
Relative position ON YUKON RIVER 70 MI WEST CAN. BORDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Charley River SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Charley River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve(National Preserve)

National Preserve NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -143.40286, 65.29976

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Circle District

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTIVE 1902-1940 INTERMITTENTLY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1903A, P. 48 (B213)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1904, P. 57-58 (B225)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1905, P. 29 (B259)

  • Deposit

    PURINGTON, 1905B, P. 208 (B263)

  • Deposit

    5) PRINDLE, 1906A, P. 126 (B284)

  • Deposit

    6) PRINDLE, 1906B, P. 23 (B295)

  • Deposit

    7) BROOKS, 1907C, P. 188 (B314)

  • Deposit

    8) BROOKS, 1908B, P. 50 (B345)

  • Deposit

    9) BROOKS, 1909A, P. 54 (B379)

  • Deposit

    10) ELLSWORTH, 1910, P. 239 (B442)

  • Deposit

    11) ELLSWORTH AND PARKER, 1911, P. 172 (B480)

  • Deposit

    12) PRINDLE AND MERTIE, 1912, P. 201, 209-210 (B520)

  • Deposit

    13) PRINDLE, 1913, P. 74-75 (B538)

  • Deposit

    14) ELLSWORTH AND DAVENPORT, 1913, P. 213 (B542)

  • Deposit

    15) CHAPIN, 1914B, P. 360 (B592)

  • Deposit

    16) BROOKS, 1915, P. 61-62 (B622)

  • Deposit

    17) BROOKS, 1916A, P. 63 (B622)

  • Deposit

    18) MERTIE, 1930B, P. 165 (B816)

  • Deposit

    19) SMITH, P. S., 1933A, P. 37 (B836)

  • Deposit

    20) SMITH, P. S., 1934B, P. 42 (B864-A)

  • Deposit

    21) SMITH, P. S., 1936, P. 44 (B868-A)

  • Deposit

    22) SMITH, P. S., 1938, P. 49 (B897-A)

  • Deposit

    23) MERTIE, 1938A, P. 254-256 (B897-C)

  • Deposit

    24) SMITH, P. S., 1939A, P. 49, 76-77 (B910-A)

  • Deposit

    25) SMITH, P. S., 1939B, P. 47, 74 (B917-A)

  • Deposit

    26) SMITH, P. S., 1941, P. 43, 70 (B926-A)

  • Deposit

    27) OVERSTREET, 1967, P. 109 (P530)

  • Deposit

    28) MERTIE, 1969, P. 90 (P630)

  • Deposit

    29) COBB, 1972, P. 66 (OF508)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

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.