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Candle Creek Gold Placer

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002605
MRDS ID A015042
Record type Site
Current site name Candle Creek Gold Placer
Related records 10113023

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -155.7946, 62.89112 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McGrath D-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

McGrath NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McGrath(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Stony River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Kuskokwim River(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

MTNT, Limited(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-379. HEADWATER OF CANDLE CREEK NORTH OF ROUNDABOUT MOUNTAINS. 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
Silver Primary
Mercury Secondary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Cinnabar Unknown
Scheelite Unknown

Analytical data

Result FINENESS 914 PARTS AU AND 78 PARTS AG PER THOUSAND. USGS BULL 864-C, P. 198.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 4827.9M
    Width 91.44M

Comments on the geologic information

  • A SMALL QUARTZ MONZONITE PLUTON OF L CRET.-E TER AGE INTRUDED CRET. SHALE AND SANDSTONE. ; MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK AT CREEK HEAD IS BASALT. BEDROCK DOWNSTREAM IS QUARTZ MONZONITE. ; REG.COM: ORE DERIVED FROM SMALL QUARTZ VEINS IN THE QUARTZ MONZONITE AND THE MINERALIZED COUNTRY ROCK ADJACENT TO THE QUARTZ MONZONITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Discoverer Louis Blackburn And Bert Eldridge
Year of first production 1914

Comments on development

  • OPEN CUT MINING 1914-1917. MINED BY DREDGE 1918-1926. LATER MINED OFF AND ON BY OPEN CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MF-379 (A-6), LOC. 20.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 864-C, P. 197-98.

  • Deposit

    USGS CIRC. 255, P. 16, 18.

  • Other Database

    BAG-MF-379-20

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BENCH AND STREAM PLACER GOLD WITH MUCH CINNABAR OCCUR AT GRAVEL BASE, ON BEDROCK AND WITHIN QUARTZ MONZONITE BEDROCK. NUGGETS UP TO 2 OUNCES FOUND.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT ABOUT 150 FT./MILE. ; 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-MAR-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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