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Windy Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury, Tin
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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 10308742
Record type Site
Current site name Windy Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.5254, 65.60231 (WGS84)
Relative position This Windy Creek is a tributary to Budd Creek in the eastern Teller C-2 and western Teller C-1 quadrangles. Budd Creek is an east tributary to the American River with headwaters along the continental divide just west of Kougarok Mountain. This is locality 75 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized references to this locality under the name 'Windy Cr., trib. American R.'.

Site location context

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Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Secondary
Tin Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
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

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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The lower mile of Windy Creek, including the area of its mouth on Budd Creek, has been placer mined for gold. A small dredge operated here early in the century. Cinnabar is reported to be in heavy mineral concentrates from the placer operations but the reported presence of cassiterite has not been confirmed. The area of operations is 11 miles southwest, and across the continental divide from, the Kougarok tin prospect. Bedrock in the Windy Creek drainage is a metapelitic/metacarbonate assemblage of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. Another small area of historical placer operations appears to be present on upper Windy Creek in the Teller C-1 quadrangle. This location, about 0.4 miles of the creek starting 1 mile upstream from its confluence with Trilby Creek (a south tributary to Windy Creek), appears to have been the site of dozer and sluice operations at some unknown time.
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not recorded

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Dredge mining took place on the lower mile of the creek and including the area of confluence with Budd Creek. Another local area of apparent dozer and sluice operations is 3.3 miles upstream from the confluence with Budd Creek (1 mile upstream of the mouth of Trilby Creek, a south tributary to Windy Creek).

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-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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