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Homestake Creek Placer

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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107514
MRDS ID A011345
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Platte Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.56454, 63.98934 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position Within 1/4 Mi

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Denali(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Healy D-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Healy N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS APPROXIMATE LOWER LIMIT OF PLACERS, EXTENDING FROM UPPER END OF CANYON ABOUT 1.5 MI UPSTREAM; UPPER 3 MI OF WATERCOURSE KNOWN AS PLATTE CREEK. 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) -148.56454, 63.98934
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: LOWER PART OF CREEK (HOMESTAKE SECTION) IS CHARACTERIZED BY COARSE, POORLY SORTED GRAVELS WITH ABUNDANT COBBLE AND BOULDER SIZED CLASTS, INCLUDING LARGE ANGULAR BLOCKS OF ANDESITE; UPPER PART OF CREEK (PLATLE SECTION) CONTAINS MUCH FINER STREAM DEPOSITS WITH RELATIVELY FEW BOULDER SIZED CLASTS, SOME WELL ROUNDED PEBBLES OF THE WENANA GRAVEL FORMATION ARE PRESENT ; MAJOR.UNITS: SCHIST OF THE KEEVY PEAK FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905
Year of first production 1906
Year of last production 1968

Mining district

District name Bonnifield

Comments on the production information

  • MINED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1906 TO AS RECENTLY AS 1968; TOTAL PRODUCTION FROM 1906-1916 ON HOMESTEAD CREEK AND FOX CREEK WAS ABOUT 3,870 FIEN OZ; NO DATA ON POST 1916 PRODUCTION; USGS BULL 662, P.397

Comments on development

  • EXPL.COM: SMALL SCALE METHODS ONLY, SMALL "BOOMING" OPERATIONS USING AUTOMATIC DUM, AU RECOVERY HAMPERED DUE TO SHORTAGE OF WATER IN THE DRAINAGE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AURIFEROUS GRAVELS 3 TO 6 FT DEEP CARRY GOLD IN LOWER 2 TO 3 FT AND UPPER PART OF SCHIST BEDROCK, PAYSTREAKS 25 TO 60 FT WIDE
Deposit GRADIENT ABOVE CANYON(PLATTE CR.): 100 FT/MI, BELOW CANYON (HOMESTAKE CR.):200 FT/MI; PLACER MINING ALSO REPORTED ON FOX CREEK, SEE ALSO :FOX CREEK; ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
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-JAN-85 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 14-APR-95 Waller, Nichelle (Mosier, Dan) U.S. Geological Survey PUT DIMENSION DATA INTO THE ORE BODY FIELDS FROM THE DEPOSIT COMMENTS FIELD.

Beyond USGS

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

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