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Fox Creek

Past 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 10000249
MRDS ID A010289
Record type Site
Current site name Fox Creek
Related records 10258620

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.12271, 59.36927 (WGS84)
Relative position This Fox Creek, with headwaters in the uplands of Atlakumtsitak Mountain, is an east tributary to Slate Creek (GO020). The placer mine location is about 2 miles upstream of the confluence of Fox and Slate Creeks, at the mouth of a small unnamed west tributary (Fechner, 1988, fig. 5). It is locality 15 of Hoare and Cobb (1977) and of Cobb and Condon (1972).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bethel(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodnews Bay B-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Goodnews Bay(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goodnews Bay(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kuskokwim Delta(hydrologic unit)

Lower Kuskokwim River(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Togiak National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

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) -161.12271, 59.36927
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A small amount of placer gold mining has taken place on Fox Creek; minor production was reported in 1936 (Smith, 1938). This east tributary to Slate Creek (GO020) is called 'Fox Gulch' by Hoare and Cobb (1977). The location of workings was plotted by Fechner (1988, fig. 5), who estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. The deposit was on a low bench along the east side of the stream, where 6 to 7 feet of gravel covered a small, 100- by 200-foot area of pay on bedrock. The average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937). The gold was coarse, smooth and bright. Fechner (1988) collected 5 samples of sediment along about 3 miles of Fox Creek; these samples contained a trace to 0.0003 ounce of gold per cubic yard. Bedrock in the area includes Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, locally intruded by Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary granitic rocks and Jurassic mafic/ultramafic plutonic rocks (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
  • 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 Goodnews Bay

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Fechner (1988, Figure 5) estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. As the average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937), production could have been 1,600 ounces of gold. This is considered a maximum estimate of production.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The location of workings was plotted by Fechner (1988, fig. 5), who estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. The deposit was on a low bench along the east side of the stream, where 6 to 7 feet of gravel covered a small,100- by 200-foot area of pay on bedrock. The average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Fechner, 1988

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 20-MAR-2001 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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