The Rabbit Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Rabbit Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rabbit Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome; Solomon River
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
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: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Early prospecting included 4 exploration shafts (30, 45, 20 and 30 feet deep) and one shallow pit (Smith, 1909).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1909
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Prospect holes uncovered creek gravel overlying well-rounded beach gravels and sand. Two types of well-rounded beach wash are reported; these include black graphitic slate gravel and white, vein quartz, pebble gravel. These overlie a thin sand layer on bedrock. Fine gold was found in the sand on bedrock and in the upper part of decomposed schist bedrock suggesting that the gold may have not traveled far from its bedrock source (Smith, 1909). Most of Rabbit Creek is at elevations between 110 and 250 feet and Quaternary sea level fluctuations would probably have affected this area. Bedrock in the headwaters of Rabbit Creek is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that includes a distinctive black, very fine-grained, graphitic schist in this area (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Possibly placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a), but can also include beach placer and residual placer accumulations.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1909, Recent developments in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379-F, p. 267-301.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.
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