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Wild Bunch (on headwater tributary to Patterson Creek)

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
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  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307274
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Bunch (on headwater tributary to Patterson Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -162.12339, 65.85939 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is in the upper part (elevation of 600 to 700 feet) of the north headwater tributary to Patterson Creek. Patterson Creek is a west tributary to Candle Creek.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben D-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -162.12339, 65.85939
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Important placer gold deposits were developed on Patterson Creek (BN072) and on Candle Creek (BN074), above and below the mouth of Patterson Creek. Reconnaissance soil samples in the tundra-covered north headwaters of Patterson Creek (elevation 600 to 700 feet) contain anomalous arsenic and one sample contains 20 ppb gold (Hudson and Wyman, 1983). The gold-bearing sample contained 200 ppm As and two other samples from this area contained 115 ppm and greater than 1,000 ppm As. Bedrock is extensively covered by tundra but what is exposed in the area is part of a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986). A small granitic stock is exposed on the ridge south of upper Candle Creek (Till and others, 1986) and Sandvik (1956) notes that granitic rocks have been identified in the headwaters of Jump Creek and Minehaha Creek. Intermediate to felsic dikes and sills crosscutting metamorphic rocks have been exposed in placer workings along Candle Creek (BN074).
  • Age = Cretaceous ; Epigenetic mineralization in metamorphic rocks of Seward Peninsula is primarily of Cretaceous age. Some lode gold deposits on southern Seward Peninsula are mid-Cretaceous in age (see Midnight Mountain, BN047).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active

Mining district

District name Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = There are no workings at this location. Only reconnaissance soil sampling has taken place here. Altar Resoures (P. O. Box 42831, Tuscon, AZ 85733) maintains an active claim block (Wild Bunch claims) covering the uplands to the north and south of Patterson Creek (Altar Resources, 1999).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hudson, T.L., and Wyman, W. F., 1983, Interim report on areas of Seward Peninsula warranting further prospecting and evaluation: Anchorage, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report, 84 p., 7 plates. (Report held by Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.)

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    Altar Resources, 1999, Lode gold prospects, Alaska: Tucson, Ariz., unpublished company report, unpaginated.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Hudson and Wyman, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Quartz-arsenopyrite veins in metasedimentary rocks ?

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-99 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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