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McCuen Gulch

Past 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
  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 10097504
MRDS ID A011349
Record type Site
Current site name McCuen Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.44287, 63.97963 (WGS84)
Relative position The McCuen Gulch placer gold prospect is on a south-flowing tributary to Totatlanika River, approximately 0.5 miles upstream from Needle Rock. The map site is near the mouth of the gulch, in sec. 12, T. 11 S., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This is locality 58 of Clark and Cobb (1972).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Denali(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Healy D-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Healy N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

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) -148.44287, 63.97963
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = McCuen Gulch drains an area of mid-Tertiary coal-bearing strata that overlie mid-Paleozoic Totatlanika Schist, composed predominantly of felsic and mafic metavolcanic and metavolcaniclastic rocks (Wilson and others, 1998). The schist is intruded by Tertiary hypabyssal plutons.? the placer deposit is in poorly-sorted alluvium consisting of well-rounded clasts, mainly of coarse-grained schist. According to Maddren (1918), the gold is derived from bedrock schist rather than reconcentrated from the Tertiary gravels (Maddren, 1918).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Bonnifield

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface development, all prior to 1918.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978 (OFR 78-1062)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-APR-2000 N. Van Wyck Stevens Exploration Management Corporation

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