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Canyon Creek Placers

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Tin
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000913
MRDS ID A011573
Record type Site
Current site name Canyon Creek Placers
Alternate or previous names Long Creek
Related records 10185695

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -150.74835, 62.59011 (WGS84)
Relative position TRIBUTARY TO LONG CREEK, TRIBUTARY TO TOKOSITNA RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Matanuska-Susitna(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Talkeetna C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Talkeetna NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Talkeetna(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Yentna River(hydrologic unit)

Susitna River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Denali State Park(State Park)

State Park ST(Type of land area)

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • CONFLUENCE WITH LONG CREEK; UNPATENTED PLACER CLAIMS COVER ENTIRETYOF CANYON CREEK, SEE: USBM OFR 24-78, FIG. 4.2-B(3). LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL GRAINS OF PLATINUM AND UNWORN CRYSTALLINE CASSITERITE IN CONCENTRATES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Garnet Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue
Specularite Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Cassiterite Unknown
Platinum Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -150.74835, 62.59011
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: GRAVEL IS MOSTLY COBBLE SIZED CLASTS 6 IN IN DIAMENTER WITH SOME BOULDERS UP TO 2 FT IN DIAMETER ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC SLATE CONTAINING NUMEROUS QUARTZ STRINGERS AND DISSEMINATED PYRITE; CUT BY ACIDIC DIKES AT THE HEAD OF CANYON CREEK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Valdez Creek

Comments on development

  • MINED INTERMITTENTLY BETWEEN 1908 AND 1932; SMALL SCALE OPERATIONS; HAS BEEN ONLY RESTRICTED PRODUCTION FROM SLUICE-TYPE OPERATIONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STREAM GRAVELS WITH PAY STREAK 1-15 FT WIDE (AVERAGE: 6 FT); RANGING FROM 2 TO 8 FT IN DEPTH; GOLD ON OR NEAR BEDROCK
Deposit MINING HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED ON RAMSDYKE CREEK, WHICH RUNS ALONG THE NW SIDE OF THE RIDGE JUST N OF THE HEADWATER BASIN OF CANYON CREEK ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1985 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 30-MAY-1995 Waller, Nichelle (Mosier, Dan) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED DATA INTO WORKIN GS AND ORE BODY MULTIVALUED FIELDS

Beyond USGS

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

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