The Beaver Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Beaver Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Beaver Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tin
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
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: Cassiterite
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer gold was first mined on Beaver Creek in the winter of 1911-12. Prospecting also occurred on nearby Pine Creek (BD032).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Ellsworth and Davenport (1913) reported that gold production was measured in dollars per foot. Total amounts of gold produced from Beaver Creek were not reported.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Ellsworth and Davenport, 1913
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Weber and others (1978) described the bedrock in the drainage as primarily greenschist facies rocks with some marble, quartzite, and phyllite. Locally, there is an extensive cover of windblown silt and sand that ranges from 0.1 to 50 meters in thickness. In addition, much of the ground in the swampy lowlands of the Chena River and its tributaries is permanently frozen (Foster and others, 1979). Scarce cassiterite was reported in the placer concentrates (Joesting, 1942). Glover (1920?) reported a range in gold fineness of 721 to 758 for Beaver Creek.? Ellsworth and Davenport (1913) report that gold was first mined in significant amounts in the winter of 1911-12. Prospecting also occurred on nearby Pine Creek (BD032). The Alaska Division of Mining Kardex file system records active claims on Beaver Creek as recent as 1984. Ellsworth and Davenport (1913) reported that gold production was measured in dollars per foot. Total amounts of gold produced from Beaver Creek were not reported.
References
Reference (Deposit): Joesting, H.R., 1942, Strategic mineral occurences in interior Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 1, 46 p.
Reference (Deposit): Ellsworth, C.E., and Davenport, R.W., 1913, Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 542, 303 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-388, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Foster, H.L., Albert, N.R.D., Griscom, Andrew, Hessin, T.D., Menzie, W.D., Turner, D.L, and Wilson, F.H., 1979, The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 783, 19 p.
Reference (Deposit): Eberlein, G.D., Chapman, R.M., Foster, H.L., and Gassaway, J.S., 1977, Map and table describing known metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-168-D, 132 p., 1 map, scale 1:1,000,000.
Reference (Deposit): Menzie, W.D., and Foster, H.L., 1979, Metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral resource potential in the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-529D, 61 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Weber, F.R., Foster, H.L., Keith, T.E.C., Dusel-Bacon, C., 1978, Preliminary geologic map of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-529A, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Eberlein, G.D., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Big Delta and Tanacross quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1086, 77 p.
Reference (Deposit): Glover, A.E., 1950, Placer gold fineness: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 195-1, 38 p.
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