1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Quartz Creek

Past Producer in Yukon Territory*, Canada with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065850
MRDS ID TC41287
Record type Site
Current site name Quartz Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -139.10256, 63.78313 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Yukon Territory*

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 732-784 (AU)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -139.10256, 63.78313
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRAVELS IN STREAM ARE OVERLAIN WITH 16-10 FT OF MUCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dawson

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Yukon Consolidated Gold Corp.

Comments on the production information

  • FIRST DISCOVERY MADE ABOUT 1896; PRODUCTION TO 1907 NOT INCLUDED IN THIS ESTIMATE, REPORTED TO BE MINOR; ESTIMATE OF AS MUCH AS 1.5 TONNES PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1907 NOT LIKELY; DREDGING 1935-1950.

Comments on the workings information

  • DREDGE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANONYMOUS, 1981; BOSTOCK, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939; DEBICKI, 1982; GLEESON, 1970.

  • 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.

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.

Maps centered on this site