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
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1942
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The main drainage has open-cut placer workings, at least in part the result of dredging in the 1940's over 1.5 miles of the creek between 225 and 390 feet elevation.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mining took place along 1.5 miles of the drainage between 225 and 390 feet elevation. A dredge was moved into the area and operated in 1940 (Smith, 1942). Mining may have continued for some time following WW II as the next stream to the north (Pajara Creek, ARDF SO035) was dredged in the late 1940's (Cobb, 1973, B 1374). Other information about the placer deposit or mining here is not available. The deposit is at low enough elevations to have been influenced by Quaternary sea level changes. Bedrock in the area is the Ordovican Casadepaga Schist, a mafic metavolcanic assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary; the deposit is at low enough elevations to have been influenced by Quaternary sea level changes.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1942, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1940: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 933-A, p. 1-102.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
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): 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., 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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