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Trail Creek (tributary to Arolik River)

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. 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 10307468
Record type Site
Current site name Trail Creek (tributary to Arolik River)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.48272, 59.47926 (WGS84)
Relative position This placer locality is assumed to be on the 1 1/2 mile segment of Trail Creek between its mouth on Butte Creek (GO033) and Kowkow Creek (GO031), an upstream south tributary. The map site is at a trail crossing at an elevation of about 400 feet, in the south 1/2 of section 14, T 8 S, R 72 W, of the Seward Meridian. It is approximately located, perhaps within a mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bethel(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodnews Bay B-7(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Goodnews Bay(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goodnews Bay(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

Calista Corporation(ANCSA Region)

ANCSA Region NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

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) -161.48272, 59.47926
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Harrington (1921, p. 221) reported that some gold placer mining had been done on Trail Creek before 1919. This mining is assumed to have occurred along the segment of Trail Creek between Butte Creek (GO033) and Kowkow Creek (GO031), two significant gold producers in this non-glaciated part of the Faro Creek drainage. No other information is available for this deposit. Uplands in the Trail Creek drainage are underlain by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks intruded by Jurassic mafic and ultramafic plutons (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Bethel

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Harrington, 1921

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-MAR-01 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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