The Canyon Creek Placers is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Canyon Creek Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Canyon Creek Placers
Secondary: Long Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Tin
Location
State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek
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
Gangue: Ilmenite
Gangue: Zircon
Gangue: Specularite
Gangue: Garnet
Unknown: Cassiterite
Unknown: Platinum
Comments
Comment (Location): CONFLUENCE WITH LONG CREEK; UNPATENTED PLACER CLAIMS COVER ENTIRETYOF CANYON CREEK, SEE: USBM OFR 24-78, FIG. 4.2-B(3). LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Commodity): SMALL GRAINS OF PLATINUM AND UNWORN CRYSTALLINE CASSITERITE IN CONCENTRATES
Comment (Development): MINED INTERMITTENTLY BETWEEN 1908 AND 1932; SMALL SCALE OPERATIONS; HAS BEEN ONLY RESTRICTED PRODUCTION FROM SLUICE-TYPE OPERATIONS
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRAVELS WITH PAY STREAK 1-15 FT WIDE (AVERAGE: 6 FT); RANGING FROM 2 TO 8 FT IN DEPTH; GOLD ON OR NEAR BEDROCK
Comment (Geology): GEOL.COM: GRAVEL IS MOSTLY COBBLE SIZED CLASTS 6 IN IN DIAMENTER WITH SOME BOULDERS UP TO 2 FT IN DIAMETER ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC SLATE CONTAINING NUMEROUS QUARTZ STRINGERS AND DISSEMINATED PYRITE; CUT BY ACIDIC DIKES AT THE HEAD OF CANYON CREEK
Comment (Deposit): MINING HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED ON RAMSDYKE CREEK, WHICH RUNS ALONG THE NW SIDE OF THE RIDGE JUST N OF THE HEADWATER BASIN OF CANYON CREEK ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF 870-D, LOC. 86
Reference (Other Database): BAG-MF-870D-86
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 534, P. 67
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 692, P. 261-262
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 810, P. 22
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 311, P. 28, 30
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 630, P. 89
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 1374, P. 22
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 77-169A, P. 68, LOC. 30
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