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Troublesome Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Mercury, Tin
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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. 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 10002977
MRDS ID A015477
Record type Site
Current site name Troublesome Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -149.60446, 65.50521 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Livengood C-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Livengood N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Livengood(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-413, LOC. 62. DEPOSIT JUST BELOW THE MOUTH OF UNION CREEK. 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
Lead Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Picotite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Cinnabar Unknown
Galena Unknown
Gold Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -149.60446, 65.50521
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PEGMATITIC GRANITE CUT BY CREEK JUST ABOVE UNION CREEK. TROUBLESOME CREEK DRAINS QUARTZ MONZONITE PLUTONS AND ASSOCIATED DIKES IN THE WOLVERINE AND SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS AREA. ; MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS CHIEFLY PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTARY AND METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rampart

Comments on development

  • SOME MINING ABOUT 1912 OR EARLIER AND PROBABLY UNTIL ABOUT 1918; RECORDS OF MINING ARE SCANTY. CREEK APPEARS LONG INACTIVE IN 1969.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER GOLD REPORTED
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT UNDER 50 FEET PER 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-JUN-87 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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Authoritative Alaska resources

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