Fox Creek

The Fox Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Fox Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:

Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Fechner (1988, Figure 5) estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. As the average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937), production could have been 1,600 ounces of gold. This is considered a maximum estimate of production.

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The location of workings was plotted by Fechner (1988, fig. 5), who estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. The deposit was on a low bench along the east side of the stream, where 6 to 7 feet of gravel covered a small,100- by 200-foot area of pay on bedrock. The average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = A small amount of placer gold mining has taken place on Fox Creek; minor production was reported in 1936 (Smith, 1938). This east tributary to Slate Creek (GO020) is called 'Fox Gulch' by Hoare and Cobb (1977). The location of workings was plotted by Fechner (1988, fig. 5), who estimated that about 20,000 yards of material had been mined. The deposit was on a low bench along the east side of the stream, where 6 to 7 feet of gravel covered a small, 100- by 200-foot area of pay on bedrock. The average grade was reported to be 0.08 ounce of gold per cubic yard (Roehm, 1937). The gold was coarse, smooth and bright. Fechner (1988) collected 5 samples of sediment along about 3 miles of Fox Creek; these samples contained a trace to 0.0003 ounce of gold per cubic yard. Bedrock in the area includes Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, locally intruded by Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary granitic rocks and Jurassic mafic/ultramafic plutonic rocks (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).

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

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Fechner, 1988

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Condon, W.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Goodnews quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-447, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Fechner, S.A., 1988, Bureau of Mines mineral investigation of the Goodnews Bay mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1-88, 230 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.

Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1938, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-A, p. 1-107.

Reference (Deposit): Roehm, J.C., 1937, Mining investigations in the Goodnews Bay district: Summary report for the Alaska Territorial Department of Mines, 5 p.

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