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Aggie Creek

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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10100975
MRDS ID A012621
Record type Site
Current site name Aggie Creek
Related records 10160635

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -163.20939, 64.8824 (WGS84)
Relative position Aggie Creek is a south tributary to Fish River. Open-cut placer workings from hydraulic operations and some dredging, are present about 12 miles east of Council. These workings are between elevations of about 40 and 140 feet on the main channel and extend a distance of 1.7 miles starting 0.3 miles upstream from the mouth of Aggie Creek. This is locality 125 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Solomon NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Solomon C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nome(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

White Mountain Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -163.20939, 64.8824
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Open-cut placer workings, from hydraulic operations and some dredging, are present on the main channel over a distance of 1.7 miles starting 0.3 miles upstream of the mouth of Aggie Creek. These workings are between elevations of about 40 and 140 feet. Bedrock of the Aggie Creek drainage is schistose Ordovician chlorite marble (Till and others, 1986). Miller and Grybeck (1973) note that quartz latite porphyry intrusives, like those present to the east, could be present in the Aggie Creek drainage and may be gold-bearing as at ARDF locality SO147. Copper concentrations in stream sediment samples are slightly elevated throughout the Aggie Creek drainage (Miller and Grybeck, 1973). Quartz latite intrusive rocks of the region are assumed to be mid-Cretaceous in age, the age of the Kachauik pluton. A K/Ar age for the Kachauik pluton is 86.1 +/- 3 Ma (Miller and others, 1972).
  • Age = Quaternary; the placer deposits are in the active channel of Aggie Creek. This area is at low enough elevations to have been influenced by Quaternary sea level changes.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Council

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Lu and others (1968) report that $101,604 worth of gold (about 3,000 ounces at $35.00 per ounce) were produced from Aggie Creek.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Open-cut placer workings, from hydraulic operations and some dredging, are present on the main channel over a distance of 1.7 miles starting 0.3 miles upstream of the mouth of Aggie Creek. This mining took place between 1929 and 1941 (Cobb, 1978). Dredging was reported for the years 1939 to 1941; this was apparently on the lower part of the creek; where large boulders were encountered (Smith, 1939, B 917-A).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Smith, P.S., 1939, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1938: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 917-A, p. 1-113.

  • Deposit

    Lu, F.C.J., Heiner, L.E., and Harris, D.P., 1968, Known and potential ore reserves, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 11, 107 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Miller, T.P., Grybeck, D.J., Elliott, R.L., and Hudson, T.L., 1972, Preliminary geologic map of the eastern Solomon and southeastern Bendeleben quadrangles, eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-256, 11 p.

  • Deposit

    Miller, T.P., and Grybeck, D.J., 1973, Geochemical survey of the eastern Solomon and southeastern Bendeleben quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 553, 115 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.

  • Deposit

    Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Miller and Grybeck, 1973

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 19-AUG-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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