Young Creek

The Young Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Young Creek
Secondary: Calamity Gulch

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nizina

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

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Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Copper
Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Gold (native)

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Copper (native)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit and Capps, 1911

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface workings.

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Yielded a small amount of gold early in the 20th century.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold deposits along Young Creek and tributaries, especially Calamity Gulch. Mined in early 1900's.

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Minor Au producer. Cu nuggets found in creek were probably derived from Nikolai Greenstone

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1912, The Alaska mining industry in 1911, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1911: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 520, p. 17-44.

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1915, Mineral resources of Alaska in 1914: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622, 238 p.

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H. and Capps, S.R., 1924, Mineral industry in Alaska, 1922: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 755, p. 1-56.

Reference (Deposit): Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.

Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1973, Reconnaissance geologic map of the McCarthy A-5 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-536, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., and Capps, S.R., 1911, Geology and mineral resources of the Nizina district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 448, 111 p.

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