Fox Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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 10000706
MRDS ID A011341
Record type Site
Current site name Fox Creek
Alternate or previous names Fox Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.57287, 63.95962 (WGS84)
Relative position The Fox Creek placer gold deposit is along Fox Creek from its junction with Homestake Creek upstream for the length of Fox Creek, a distance of approximately 1 mile. This site may also include some workings on Homestake Creek. The map site is at the approximate midpoint of the placer acticity, in sec. 8, T. 11 S., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This is location 57 of Clark and Cobb (1972).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Denali(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Healy D-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Healy N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy 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 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -148.57287, 63.95962

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Upper Fox Creek drains an Eocene to Miocene sequence of poorly consolidated, readily eroded pebbly sandstone, claystone and subituminous coal (Wilson and others, 1998). Lower Fox Creek drains Keevy Peak Formation schist and Tertiary, hypabyssal granitic rocks. The most probable sources of the placer gold in Fox Creek are Tertiary paleoplacers formed during an earlier erosional cycle of the Alaska Range.
  • 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 Bonnifield

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface workings.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978 (OFR 78-1062)

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-APR-2000 N. Van Wyck Stevens Exploration Management Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

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