The Copper Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Copper Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper Creek
Secondary: Radar Gulch
Secondary: Seattle Gulch
Secondary: Idaho 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
Not available
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 (Deposit): Model Name = Placer: stream
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Copper Creek is actually the upper course of Dan Creek (MC141). It was not uncommon for Alaskan prospectors to call the upper and lower parts of the same creek by different names.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Type of workings: surface
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Modern stream placers. All pre-glacial unconsolidated deposits have been removed by glacier. Copper Creek follows fault contact between Triassic limestone and greenstone to the north and younger Mesozoic sedimentary rocks cut by Tertiary hypabyssal rocks to the south.
References
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.
Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1915, Mineral resources of Alaska in 1914: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622, 238 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1970, Geology of the McCarthy B-4 quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1333, 31 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Smith, J.G., 1972, Geologic map of the McCarthy B-4 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-943, 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.
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