Olive Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Chromium, Mercury, Tungsten
Sections on this page
  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 10308892
MRDS ID A015489
Record type Site
Current site name Olive Creek
Related records 10257402, 10107555

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.50904, 65.48867 (WGS84)
Relative position Cobb (1972, MF-413), loc. 72; SE1/4 sec. 26, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. The Olive Creek placer mine tailings are marked along Olive Creek in the extreme northeast corner of Livengood (B-4) quadrangle. Coordinates given are for buildings adjacent to tailings.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Livengood B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Livengood S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Livengood C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Chromium Critical Secondary
Mercury Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Cinnabar 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) -148.50904, 65.48867

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Placer gold on the Discovery claim is in the lower 7 feet of 10 feet of angular slide gravel, and a little coarse gold is found on bedrock (Mertie, 1918). Bedrock is slate and sandstone intruded by now highly altered granitic rock. Concentrates contain gold, magnetite, ilmenite, picotite, scheelite, chromite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, zircon, limonite and plentiful cinnabar (Mertie, 1918; Overbeck, 1920).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Tolovana

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Mining was reported in 1915, 1916, 1918, 1922, 1926, 1928-34, 1936-40, and as recently as 1988, but no record of amount of production (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633; Green and others, 1989).

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Mining was reported in 1915, 1916, 1918, 1922, 1926, 1928-34, and 1936-40 (Cobb, 1976; OFR 76-633). Gold production was also reported in the 1980's by a small-scale sluicing opertation (Green and others, 1989).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1976 (OFR 76-633)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-MAY-1999 C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer Avalon Development Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

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