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Rebel 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 10308551
Record type Site
Current site name Rebel Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -145.43595, 65.52873 (WGS84)
Relative position The location is midway up Rebel Creek from its confluence with Bonanza Creek, about 2 miles ENE of the top of Porcupine Dome.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Circle C-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Circle NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Circle C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

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) -145.43595, 65.52873
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock in the Bonanza Creek drainage is the Lower Schist unit described by Wiltse and others (1995) as a slightly calcareous quartz-muscovite schist, porphyroblastic-albite-quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist and lesser amounts of quartzose porphyroblastic-albite-chlorite schist. In the Bonanza Creek drainage, Freeman and others(1988, p. 14), mapped precious metal mineralization, sulfidemineralization, minor stockwork silicification and quartz-sericite-sulfidealteration of Bonanza Creek sequence rocks which include metaquartzite,pelitic calc-schist and metavolcanic schist. Detailed descriptions ofalteration were not completed for Rebel Creek. During 1988 placer gold was examined from Rebel Creek just above its confluence with Bonanza Creek. The gold was very fresh and angular and was dominantly wire gold with some small nuggets. Flakes were distinctly absent (Freeman and others, 1988).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Circle

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Mining has been reported (see workings/exploration); however, amount of production is unknown.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Small scale placer operations were active in the 1980's.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Freeman and others, 1988.

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-SEP-1998 C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer, A.S. Clements Avalon Development Corporation

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