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Ahtell Creek

Prospect 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 10307478
Record type Site
Current site name Ahtell Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -144.00261, 62.72968 (WGS84)
Relative position This placer prospect is somewhat arbitrarily located on Athell Creek at the boundary between the Gulkana and Nabesna quadrangles. This location was chosen because of several conflicting locations. Richter (1966, fig. 5) shows one placer prospect on the Nabesna D-6 quadrangle about one-mile downstream from the quadrangle boundary. Richter and Matson (location 21, 1972) give a locality on Ahtell Creek about 0.8 miles upstream from the quadrangle boundary. In 1938, Moffit (1938, p. 51) reported that in 1936, prospecting for placer gold was in progress 'near the lower end of the canyon, 2 miles from the Slana Bridge. Ahtell Creek was also reported as auriferous by MacKevett and Holloway (1977, locality 20) in the SE1/4NE1/4, section 13 T. 11 N., R. 7 E., Copper River Meridian.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valdez-Cordova(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gulkana C-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Gulkana NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Gulkana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Copper River(hydrologic unit)

Copper River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ahtna, Incorporated(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) -144.00261, 62.72968
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Ahtell Creek drains a large region known to be locally auriferous. Grubstake Creek (GU017) the most productive gold placer in the region enters Ahtell Creek about 4 miles above this site. A lode gold prospect, the Gold-Quartz prospect, (GU013), is in the Ahtell Creek canyon just above this site. A description of prospecting activities on Ahtell Creek in 1936 by Moffit (1938, p. 51) suggests that the Ahtell Creek placer is of river-bar type, formed by the reworking of low-grade materials. Moffit reported that the prospect was in the canyon of Ahtell Creek where auriferous gravel deposits of probable local derivation formed in the bends of the river and at its mouth.
  • Age = Holocene placer.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Chistochina

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Prospect activity was reported in 1936 (Moffit, 1938; Smith, 1939).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Richter, D.H., 1966, Geology of the Slana district on south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 2l, 36b p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

  • Deposit

    Smith, P.S., 1939, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1938: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 917-A, p. 1-113.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

  • Deposit

    Moffit, F.H., 1938, Geology of the Slana-Tok district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 904, 54 p.

  • Deposit

    Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-419, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit, 1938

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer gold deposit, river-bar subtype (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-DEC-00 W.T. Ellis Alaska Earth Sciences
Reporter 20-DEC-00 Hawley, C.C. Hawley Resource Group
Reporter 20-DEC-00 W.J. Nokleberg U.S. Geological Survey

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