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Patterson Creek

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
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  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
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  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001884
MRDS ID A012709
Record type Site
Current site name Patterson Creek
Related records 10160633

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -162.10033, 65.8405 (WGS84)
Relative position Patterson Creek is a west tributary to Candle Creek. The mouth of Patterson Creek is 1,500 feet upstream of Camp 19 on Candle Creek. This is locality 65 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben D-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

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) -162.10033, 65.8405
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Placer gold was discovered on Patterson Creek early in the century and mining was reported to have taken place by 1909 (Henshaw (1910). Six to eight feet of gravel on blue clay was reported from early workings (Moffit, 1905). The gravel contains abundant vein quartz and quartzite, a few pebbles of limonite and barite(?), and rare fragments resembling altered rhyolite porphyry (Briskey, 1983). Mining was done by both drift and open-cut methods (Cobb, 1975, OFR 75-429). Drift mining is reported to have locally exposed galena-bearing veins (BN073) in bedrock. Mining operations may have taken place over a fair amount of the creek; it is about 2.4 miles long below the headwater tributaries. Bedrock is extensively covered by tundra but what is exposed in the area is part of a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986). A small granitic stock is exposed on the ridge south of upper Candle Creek (Till and others, 1986) and Sandvik (1956) notes that granitic rocks have been identified in the headwaters of Jump Creek and Minehaha Creek. Intermediate to felsic dikes and sills crosscutting metamorphic rocks have been exposed in placer workings along Candle Creek (BN074).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active (1983)

Mining district

District name Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Both drift and open-cut placer operations have taken place; most work has been surface open-cut operations.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

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 15-MAR-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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