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Gold King

Occurrence 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308491
Record type Site
Current site name Gold King

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.13328, 67.47973 (WGS84)
Relative position The Gold King prospect is located somewhat imprecisely at an elevation of 3,700 ft about 1 1/2 miles northeast of the confluence of Day Creek and Big Creek (sec. 26, T. 31 N., R. 3 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian). The location is accurate within a 2-mile radius.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chandalar B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Chandalar S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chandalar C(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

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -148.13328, 67.47973
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Little information is available on this property except the description in Heiner and Wolff (1968) that it is a gold quartz property.
  • Age = Middle Cretaceous based on arguments by Dillon (1982) that the age of emplacement of the gold-bearing quartz veins of the Koyukuk and Chandalar districts was between the Neocomian metamorphism of the Devonian host rocks and their erosional unroofing and cooling in Albian time.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Chandalar

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = A three-stamp mill was reportedly built in 1910 (Heiner and Wolff, 1968).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Heiner, L.E., and Wolff, E.N., eds., 1968, Mineral resources of northern Alaska, Final report, submitted to the NORTH Commission: Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska, Report 16, 306 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Heiner and Wolff, 1968

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins(?) (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-99 J.M. Britton (Anchorage) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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