The Cache Creek Area is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Cache Creek Area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cache Creek Area
Secondary: Includes: Cache
Secondary: Peters
Secondary: Bird
Secondary: Windy
Secondary: Thunder and Nugget Creeks
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Tin
Secondary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Platinum
Location
State: Alaska
District: Yentna District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Copper
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Cassiterite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Ilmenite
Gangue: Zircon
Comments
Comment (Commodity): SOME URANIUM AND THORIUM FOUND AS TRACE ELEMENTS IN CONCENTRATIONS
Comment (Production): HAS BEEN PRODUCTION IN THIS AREA FROM EARLY 1900' TO 1970'S
Comment (Deposit): MOST OF AREA'S PRODUCTION FROM DREDGING ON CACHE & PETERS CREEKS
Comment (Geology): EXCEPT IN PARTS OF DUTCH & PETERS HILLS, QUATERNARY GLACIALAND ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS BLANKET BEDROCK IN MOST OF AREA; AT THUNDER CREEK PLACERS ARE IN TERTIARY QUARTZ CONGLOMERATE DERIVED FROM HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED ROCKS IN FAULT ZONE NEARBY (SIMILAR TO THAT AT DOLLAR CREEK); MESOZOIC ROCKS OFTEN CUT BY SMALL GRANITE BODIES, DIABASE AND OTHER TYPES OF DIKES ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC GRAYWACKE AND FINER CLASTIC ROCKS; TERTIARY CONTINENTAL ROCKS OCCUR IN THE DUTCH HILLS; SMALL PLUTONS INTRUDE THE MESOZOIC SEQUENCE ; REG.COM: LODE DEPOSITS IN DUTCH & PETERS HILLS-FAIR AMOUNT OF CERTANTY AS AREA IS VERY NEARLY SURROUNDED BY THESE HILLS
Comment (Location): A PRODUCTIVE PLACER AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 50 SQ MI.; INCLUDES STREAMS DRAINING PETERS HILLS AND DUTCH HILLS AND TRIBUTARIES TO CACHE CREEK LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :49?
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MAP MF-870-D
Reference (Deposit): USGS B 1374, P. 21-22
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 77-169A, P.68
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