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Golden Creek Placer

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 10097576
MRDS ID A015576
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Creek Placer
Related records 10257531

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -153.01841, 65.29068 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Melozitna B-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Tanana SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Melozitna(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-396, LOC. 7. PLACER MINE MARKED ON MELOZITNA (B-1) ALONG GOLDEN CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF ILLINOIS CREEK. PLACER 6 MILES SSW OF MORAN DOME. 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -153.01841, 65.29068
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAJOR.UNITS: COUNTRY ROCK IS PALEOZOIC OR PRECAMBRIAN PELITIC SCHIST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Melozitna

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on development

  • HAS BEEN SMALL SCALE PLACER GOLD MINING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MF-396 (B-1), LOC. 7

  • Deposit

    USGS OF 239, P. 16

  • Deposit

    USGS OF 81-847 A, P. A8.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IN STREAM PLACER. NO PLACER CASSITERITE REPORTED.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET PER MILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1987 Powers, M.T. (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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