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Red Head #1

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Iron, Titanium
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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 10000369
MRDS ID A010436
Record type Site
Current site name Red Head #1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -146.46252, 60.67959 (WGS84)
Relative position This beach placer site represents about two miles of the shore of outer Port Gravina between Red Head and Hell's Hole. The map site is about at the mid-point of the beach placer. It is in the E1/2 sec. 4, T. 13 S., R. 8 W., of the Copper River Meridian. The site is accurately located to within 2000 ft. This location as site P-18 in Jansons and others (1984).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cordova C-7 NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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Cordova(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Secondary
Titanium Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gangue = Beach sand

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Garnet Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite 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) -146.46252, 60.67959
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = This prospect consists of heavy minerals, including gold, in wave-formed beach placer deposits. Zones of heavy-mineral concentration in the sand can reach three feet thick. One such one-foot-thick zone overlying pebbles of felsic intrusive rock, greenstone, graywacke and slate was sampled and contained over 10% garnet (Jansons and others, 1984). Two 0.1 cubic-yard samples of the beach sand contained <0.03 ppm to 0.0002 oz. Au/ton.
  • Age = Holocene.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Copper River

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not more than 500 oz. Au produced (Cobb, 1979: OF 79-973).

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface workings. Heavy-mineral concentration zones contained over 10% garnet. Two 0.1 cubic-yard samples of the beach sand contained <0.03 ppm to 0.0002 oz. Au/ton (Jansons and others, 1984).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Jansons and others, 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Beach placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Deposit Other Comments = Site is in the Chugach National Forest.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-JUN-00 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

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