The Emery Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Emery Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Emery Creek
Secondary: Emory Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Koyukuk
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production of approximately $10,000 (early 1900s gold price) from 1900 to 1909 (Maddren, 1913).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Maddren, 1913
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = According Maddren (1913), Emory (sic) Creek had produced $10,000 in gold by 1909. The gold occurred on bedrock amidst boulders which had to be moved to recover the gold. Reed (1938) saw no evidence of the mining that Maddren had earlier reported, but he noted prospecting near the junction of Emory Creek with an east-flowing tributary. The results of this prospecting were unknown. Bedrock in the area is mapped as Ordovician black phyllite and intercalated marble (Dillon and Reifenstuhl, 1990).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Maddren (1913, p. 105) noted that Emery Creek was the only tributary of the Bettles River on which there has been any placer gold production.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Possible mining in the early 1900s and later prospecting.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): DeYoung, J.H., Jr., 1978, Mineral resources map of the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-878-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Chandalar and Wiseman quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-340, 205 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-457, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Heiner, L.E., and Wolff, E.N., eds., 1968, Mineral resources of northern Alaska, Final report, submitted to the NORTH Commission: Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska, Report 16, 306 p.
Reference (Deposit): Maddren, A.G., 1913, The Koyukuk-Chandalar region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 532, 119 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Cruz, E.L., 1983, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-278, 91 p.
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