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Dick Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Tin, Tungsten
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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
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  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308788
MRDS ID A012732
Record type Site
Current site name Dick Creek
Related records 10001904, 10257541

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.98442, 65.78632 (WGS84)
Relative position Dick Creek, located along the southwest border of the Bendeleben D-6 quadrangle, is a north-flowing tributary to Bryan Creek. Bryan Creek is a northeast-flowing drainage with some headwater tributaries on the northeast flank of the Kougarok Mountain upland (TE070, Hudson, 1998). The continental divide separates the Dick Creek drainage from that of Mascot Gulch (BN044) to the south (in the Bendeleben C-6 quadrangle). Sainsbury and others (1969) show 9,000 feet of placer workings along the channel of Dick Creek in its headwater reaches. This is locality 19 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

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Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben D-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shishmaref(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tin Critical Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Gold Ore
Scheelite 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) -164.98442, 65.78632
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Sainsbury and others (1969) show 9,000 feet of placer workings along the channel of Dick Creek in its headwater reaches. This location is across the continental divide (about 1,140 feet high here) and about 2.3 miles north of the placer workings on Mascot Gulch (BN044). Because there is indication that placer mining took place near the mouth of Dick Creek (locality TE070, Hudson, 1998), the area of mining here may be more extensive than that shown by Sainsbury and others (1969). The presence of stream tin (cassiterite) in the gravels was reported in 1906 (Hess, 1906, p. 157) and mining took place at least by 1908 (Collier and others, 1908). Anderson (1947) reported that both scheelite and cassiterite were present in this drainage. Mining was continuous from 1927 to 1940 and included some dredging (Cobb, 1975, OFR 75-429). Some mining took place as recently as 1952 (Cobb, 1973, B 1374)). The character of the placer deposits has not been described but all mining appears to have been in the main channel and floodplain of Dick Creek; bench placers are apparently not present. Bedrock in the area is part of a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Serpentine

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Sainsbury and others (1969) show 9,000 feet of placer workings in the headwater reaches of Dick Creek. However, because mining is also indicated near the mouth (locality TE070, Hudson, 1998) and because there is a long history of mining of this creek (including dredging, Cobb, 1975), the area of placer mine workings may be more extensive than that shown by Sainsbury and others (1969).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

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 15-MAR-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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