Goose Creek

The Goose Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Goose Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Council

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Magnetite

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary; the numerous incised terraces along the Casadepaga River indicate that more than one cycle of erosion and deposition has developed placer deposits in the area. The low elevations between 170 and 270 feet along the first 11 miles of the river, suggest that Quaternary sea level fluctuations could have influenced placer development.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1910

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer gold mining started on lower Goose Creek in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901). A water-powered scraper, 1/2 mile above the mouth in 1907, was designed to handle 50 cubic yards per day. Dredging started by 1909 and took place intermittantly to 1919 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181).

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold mining started on lower Goose Creek in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901). Dredging started by 1909 and took place intermittantly to 1919 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). Sainsbury and others (1972, OFR 511) show placer tailings to be present over the lower mile of the creek. This part of the creek crosses creek terraces and terraces of the Casadepaga River and some bench mining occurred. Near the mouth, bedrock was not exposed and gold was on a clay false bedrock. One half mile upstream, flat, bright gold was recovered from from a clay layer on schist bedrock (Smith, 1910). Bedrock in the area is primarily part of a pelitic schist assemblage of possible Cambrian or Precambrian age (Till and others, 1986).

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): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Ewing, R., and Marsh, W.R., 1972, Reconnaissance geologic maps of the Solomon D-5 and C-5 quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 511, 12 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., Richardson, G. B., and Collier, A. J., 1901, Reconnaissance in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication, p. 1-180.

Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1910, Geology and mineral resources of the Solomon and Casadepaga quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 433, 234 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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