The Slate Creek Placers is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Slate Creek Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Slate Creek Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum
Location
State: Alaska
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1900
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Slate Creek Fault Zone, Denali Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: EQUIVALENT TO FINENESS OF 893.6 GIVEN AU AT 20.67 DOLLARS/FINE OZ, USGS BULL 263, P. 207
Analytical Data: AU VALVED AT 18.47 DOLLARS/OZ
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Platinum
Comments
Comment (Development): MINED SINCE 1900; ABOUT 1/3 OF PRODUCTION TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 1898 AND 1907; MAJOR MINING ENDED 1962; SMALL-SCALE MINING SINCE THEN
Comment (Location): COORDINATES GIVEN ARE FOR ARBITRARILY CHOSEN POINT ON SLATE CREEK; FOR LOCATION OF INDIVIDUAL PLACER WORKINGS, SEE ADGGS GR 28, FIGURE 1 LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Deposit): THREE AGES OF GRAVELS CONTAIN AU: 1. PRESENT STREAM GRAVELS, 2. BENCH GRAVELS OF GLACIAL ORIGIN ON W SIDE OF LOWER SLATE CREEK, 3. TERTIARY CONGLOMERATE; STREAM GRAVELS ARE THE SOURCE OF NEARLY ALL PRODUCTION, BUT BENCH DEPOSITS CONTAIN ECONOMICALLY SIGNIFICANT VALVES LOCALLY; RICHEST PLACERS WERE AT AND BELOW JUNCTION WITH MILLER GULCH; CLAIMS ABOVE MILLER GULCH MUCH LEANER THAN THOSE BELOW
Comment (Geology): CREEK FOLLOWS FAULT ZONE SEPARATING UPPER PALEOZOIC SLATES OF MANKOMEN FORMATION FROM CONGLOMERATE, QUARTZITE AND TUFF OF OLDER CHISANA FORMATION; VALLEY MAY BE UNDERLAIN BY GRABEN CONTAINING CURIFEROUS CONGLOMERATE, SANDSTONE AND SHALE OF TETIARY GAKONA FORMATION ; MAJOR.UNITS: SEE GEOLOGY COMMENTS ; REG.COM: PROXIMAL SOURCE TERTIARY CONGLOMERATE AND BENCHES OF GLACIAL ORIGIN; ULTIMATE SOURCE PROBABLY IN ROCKS N OF DENALI FAULT; AU PROBABLY RECONCENTRATED SEVERAL TIMES
Comment (Deposit): MAJOR PRODUCER OF CHISTOCHINA DISTRICT, SEE ALSO: MILLER GULCH ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 1374, P. 26-28
Reference (Deposit): ADGGS GR 28, P. 23-25, 37
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 989-D, P. 191-193
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 943-B, P. 29, 31-33
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 692, P. 21, 30-31, 137-141
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 662, P. 21-22, 43
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 498, P. 56, 70-74
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 255, P. 47
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 15, P. 49, 53-54
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 213, P. 71-73
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