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Dan Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony
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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 10308913
MRDS ID A010736
Record type Site
Current site name Dan Creek
Related records 10000538

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -141.55244, 61.37469 (WGS84)
Relative position A productive placer area along 6 miles of lower Dan Creek. Extends into McCarthy B-4 quadrangle. Best location: MacKevett, 1976, loc. 57. Accurate within a few hundred feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valdez-Cordova(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McCarthy B-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

McCarthy SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McCarthy(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Chitina River(hydrologic unit)

Copper River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Stibnite 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) -141.55244, 61.37469
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Stream gravels 8 to 12 ft deep; gold on bedrock and lower 2 ft of gravel and in top 1 ft of rippable shale bedrock; bench placers mined to lesser extent. In 1939 a 3 ton copper nugget was found on Dan Creek

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Nizina

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Type of workings: Surface and underground. Mostly small-scale hand and open-cut hydraulic methods; some drift mining.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Moffit, F.H., and Capps, S.R., 1911, Geology and mineral resources of the Nizina district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 448, 111 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1974, Geologic map of the McCarthy B-5 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1146, scale 1:63,360.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Smith, J.G., 1972, Geologic map of the McCarthy B-4 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-943, scale 1:63,360.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit and Capps, 1911

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer: bench & stream placers, and some ancient channel
Deposit Other Comments = A little fine gold can be panned from practically all the streams draining the north flank of the Chugach Mountains.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-JUL-1997 Garrison, Michael T., Elliott, R.L., Richter, D.H. U.S. Geological Survey

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