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McKinley Creek

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 10308437
Record type Site
Current site name McKinley Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -166.06237, 65.27229 (WGS84)
Relative position McKinley Creek is a 2.5-mile long, south-flowing stream whose mouth is on the northeast shore of Grantley Harbor, 8.5 miles east of Teller. Placer operations have taken place over about 0.4 miles of the main drainage between elevations of 150 and 200 feet, just above the headwater fork (Sainsbury and others, 1969). This is locality 69 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'McKinley Cr.'.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Brevig Mission Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village 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) -166.06237, 65.27229
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock in the McKinley Creek drainage is a chlorite and mica schist assemblage that is locally intruded by small greenstone bodies (Sainsbury, 1972); the age of this assemblage is uncertain but it is probably Paleozoic. Sainsbury and others (1969) show the location of placer workings (about 0.4 miles of the main drainage between elevations of 150 and 200 feet, just above the headwater fork) but otherwise this deposit has not been described.
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not known

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Placer operations have taken place over about 0.4 miles of the main drainage between elevations of 150 and 200 feet, just above the headwater fork (Sainsbury and others, 1969). These are assumed to have been dozer and sluice operations.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-98 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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