The Fox River is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Fox River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Fox River
Secondary: IXL Gulch
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Council
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 (Geology): Age = Quaternary; system of benches indicates more than one cycle of erosion and deposition. Low elevation (about 200 feet) and proximity to Niukluk River lowlands suggests that sea level fluctuations may have influenced development of the placers.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Production): Production Notes = A few ounces of gold were produced before 1908.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Fox River is incised and small-scale placer mining took place on bench deposits near the mouth of IXL Gulch as early as 1903 (Collier and others, 1908). The bench gravels were 2 to 6 feet thick on schist bedrock and covered by 2 to 3.5 feet of muck. Two ounces of gold were reported to have been recovered from 4 cubic yards of gravel near the mouth of IXL Gulch (Collier and others, 1908). Bedrock in the area is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale placer mining took place on benches in this area.
References
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): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
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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