The Little Eldorado Creek Placer is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Little Eldorado Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Little Eldorado Creek Placer
Secondary: Snow Gulch Trib.
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chisana
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: N
Deposit Size: S
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
Comments
Comment (Location): BEST LOCATION: USGS I-749; PLACERED AREA ON LOWER 1 MI OF STREAM COURSE AND ON TRIBUTARIES ALONG THIS SECTION LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Production): PLACER MINE ON LITTLE ELDORADO CREEK WAS MAJOR PRODUCER FOR CHISANA DISTRICT IN THE YEARS 1929 THROUGH 1932; TOTAL PRODUCTION FOR THE CHISANA DISTRICT HAS BEEN IN THE 40 TO 50 THOUSAND OZ RANGE
Comment (Development): MINING METHODS: SIMPLE HYDRAULIC AND HAND METHODS ONLY; MAJOR YEARS OF PRODUCTION WERE BETWEEN 1913 AND 1940; SOME SMALL SCALE MINING TO PRESENT TIME, BUT PRODUCTION SINCE 1940 HAS BEEN INSIGNIFICANT
Comment (Deposit): TWO STREAM PLACERS DESCRIBED IN USGS BULL 622: CLAIM NO. 2, 75 TO 150 FT WIDE WITH AVE 3 FT GRAVEL, WIDTH OF PAY STREAK 36 TO 40 FT, AU IN TOP 5 TO 12 IN OF RIPPABLE BEDROCK; CLAIM NO. 3, DIMENSIONS 65 BY 50 FT, DEPTH OF GRAVEL AVE 3 FT, AU ON FALSE CLAY BEDROCK UNDERLAIN BY 2 FT OF GRAVEL, USGS BULL 622, P. 216-217
Comment (Workings): SOME OF THE GRAVEL MINED WAS FROZEN; STREAM GRAVELS WERE REPORTED TO BE "WORKED OUT" BY 1914, WHEN ATTENTION TURNED TO BENCHES AND OLD CHANNELS
Comment (Geology): UPPER COURSE OF STREAM UNDERLAIN BY JURASSIC AND CRETACEOUS ARGILLITE AND MUDSTONE, LOWER COURSE UNDERLAIN BY PYRODASTICS OF THE CRETACEOUS CHISANA FORMATION. ; MAJOR.UNITS: CRETACEOUS CHISANA FORMATION, MAINLY PYROCLASTICS AND LAVA FLOWS ; REG.COM: TERTIARY GRAVELS CAPPING GOLD HILL, THE MOUNTAIN TO THE WEST OF THE BONANZA CREEK DRAINAGE
Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: BOULDER CREEK, BOULDER CREEK AND LITTLE ELDORADO CREEK WERE MAJOR PRODUCERS OF THE DISTRICT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 630, P. 92-93, 95, 104-106, 109-110, 115
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 824, P. 39
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 836, P. 40
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 844-A P. 42
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 857-A, P. 39
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 864-A, P. 42
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 989-D, P. 196-199
Reference (Deposit): USGS I-749
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-655K, LOC. 65
Reference (Other Database): BAG-MF-655K-65
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