Treasure Creek

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10308577
Record type	Site
Current site name	Treasure Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-147.80196, 64.97667 (WGS84)
Relative position	The Treasure Creek prospect consists of a 1,500-foot by 1300-foot area of anomalous gold, arsenic, and antimony in soils. The location shown is in NW1/4 sec. 29, T. 2 N., R. 1 W., Fairbanks Meridian, just south of the headwater forks of O'Connor Creek.

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-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Big Delta NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fairbanks(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

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-147.80196, 64.97667	ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

Geologic Description = The following geologic description is summarized from a report by Sam Dashevsky (1993) on work done by American Copper and Nickel Company (ACNC) on the Eagle Creek property in the early 1990's. Rock fragments from soil pits indicate the bedrock is quartz-mica schist with abundant quartz veinlets. (This area was mapped by Newberry and others (1996) as Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist). Three lines of soil samples on 400-foot by 100-foot grid defined a 1,500-foot by 1,300-foot area that is anomalous in gold, arsenic, antimony, and contains minor cobalt and cadmium. This prospect occupies a lobe of low magnetic susceptibility detected by an airborne geophysical survey.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Prospect
Commodity type	Metallic

Mining district

District name	Fairbanks

Comments on the workings information

Workings / Exploration = A strong arsenic soil anomaly was identified in soil samples in the 1970's. Follow-up work by American Copper and Nickel Company found other anomalous trace elements and gold in the soils over the area (Dashevsky, 1993).

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Alaska Resource Data File	ARDF	FB073

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Dashevsky, S.S., 1993, Eagle Creek project (Au), Fairbanks district, Alaska: American Copper and Nickel Company, Inc., 60 p. (Report held by Sam Dashevsky, Northern Associates Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; can be examined with permission from current lease holders).
Deposit

Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Comments on the references

Primary Reference = Dashevsky, 1993

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

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