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Hudson

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. 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 10308571
Record type Site
Current site name Hudson

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.06595, 64.85466 (WGS84)
Relative position The Hudson mine is at an elevation of about 1,500 feet and 0.4 mile north of the mouth of Moose Gulch and 1.5 miles west-northwest of the town of Ester. It is in the SW1/4 sec. 1, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., Fairbanks Meridian.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fairbanks North Star(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairbanks D-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Fairbanks N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fairbanks C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

LG(Federal land areas administered by LG)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -148.06595, 64.85466
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Before 1913, most of the mining between Moose Gulch and Ready Bullion Creek, took place at an elevation of about 1,500 feet at the Hudson mine (Smith, 1913 [B 525, p. 203-206]). Smith reported that the rock in the shaft was mineralized; however, there was no well-defined lode. A fault plane was exposed on the east side of the shaft that showed well-marked striations and grooves that indicated multiple directions of movement. The bedrock is chloritic schist with numerous small quartz veins that cut the schist at high angles. In addition to the narrow quartz veins, there are larger masses of barren quartz. In a few places, the bedrock is quartzite that is stained brown with limonite, likely from the decomposition of sparsely disseminated pyrite. The richest ore in the mine occurs in narrow quartz stringers that intersect the country rock in various directions. Free gold occurs in these sulfide-free quartz stringers, with a greater concentration of gold near the walls rather than in the center of the veins. Although most of the gold occurs in these narrow quartz veins, numerous gold particles were panned from a sample of the country rock.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Fairbanks

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = There is no record of the amount of production, but there was some.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Before 1913, most of the mining between Moose Gulch and Ready Bullion Creek, took place at an elevation of about 1,500 feet at the Hudson mine (Smith, 1913 [B 525, p. 203-206]). The original shaft was sunk at an elevation of about 1,500 feet but was soon abandoned and a new shaft was sunk a short distance above it. The original shaft was vertical to a depth of 40 feet; the dip of the deposit then flattened, and a 45 -egree incline was sunk to the northwest to a depth of about 94 feet. When visited by Smith in 1912, the lower part of the incline had caved.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Smith, 1913 (B 525)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Schist-hosted gold-quartz vein

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-JUL-2001 J.R. Guidetti Schaefer and C.J. Freeman Avalon Development Corporation

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