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Boulder Creek

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 10308700
Record type Site
Current site name Boulder Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.0394, 66.07442 (WGS84)
Relative position This placer mine is located at an elevation of about 500 feet, in the headwaters of (informally named) Boulder Creek, a west-flowing tributary to Buckland River. The old workings are at the fork in the stream. The site is in the SW1/4 section 20, T. 8 N., R. 11 E., of the Kateel River Meridian.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Selawik A-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Selawik S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Selawik(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Buckland River(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

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) -161.0394, 66.07442
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A small placer gold deposit is located in the upper portion of (informally named) Boulder Creek. Old tailings are visible on the southern tributary stream bank. The deposit was worked by hand in the 1950's (Paul Savok, oral communication, 1995).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active?

Mining district

District name Selawik

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = This placer deposit was worked by hand methods in the 1950's. Prospecting and staking were done in the mid-1990's. Regional stream silt and pan concentrate samples were collected in the Boulder Creek area by WGM in 1974 (NANA Regional Corp. data files).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Degenhart, C.E. and Bigelow, C.G., 1974, Preliminary minerals evaluation NANA Regional corporation selection lands: unpublished report, WGM, Anchorage, Alaska, 84 p. (Report held by NANA Regional Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska).

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = This description.

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-DEC-99 Williams, Anita U.S. Geological Survey

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