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Big Gold Creek-Glacier Creek

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065833
MRDS ID TC41264
Record type Site
Current site name Big Gold Creek-Glacier Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -140.73597, 64.01644 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle A-1 OE E(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Eagle SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Eagle E OE(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country
Canada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 847-854 (AU)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -140.73597, 64.01644
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRAVELS CONTAIN SCHIST AND ANDESITE CLASTS USUALLY LESS THAN 15 CM IN DIAMETER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1892

Mining district

District name Sixty-Mile

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Yukon Placer Mining Co..

Comments on the production information

  • DISCOVERED ABOUT 1892; PRODUCTION INTERMITTENT TO 1980.

Comments on the workings information

  • DREDGE, OPEN PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DEBICKI, 1982, 1983; SKINNER, 1961; GREEN, 1965.

  • Deposit

    ORRIS, G.J. AND BLISS, J.D., 1985, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-213, 172 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    ORRIS AND BLISS, 1985.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER AREA INCLUDES LITTLE GOLD CREEK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1985 Orris, Greta J. (Bliss, James D.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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