Glacier Creek

The Glacier Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Glacier Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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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

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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

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface, open-cut placer workings are present along at least 4,000 feet of the channel and floodplain of the creek.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold was discovered in 1908 (Henshaw, 1909). Two men reportedly produced $400 (20 ounces) in 7 hours of mining from a 20 foot-wide paysteak in thin gravels. Apparently gold values have been found from the Candle ditch intake upstream for 1.5 miles but the mapped extent of placer workings start about a mile above the ditch. There are at least 4,000 feet of placer workings along the floodplain of the creek. Monument Mountain is underlain by a polydeformed metapelitic schist that may be Precambrian in age but the bedrock of Glacier Creek is a metasedimentary sequence of Lower Paleozoic age (Till and others, 1986). The Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks locally include felsic metavolcanic rocks in areas peripheral to Kiwalik Mountain. Float of very fine-grained, siliceous, tan-weathering metasediment (tuff or exhalite ?) has been observed in the headwater gravels of Glacier Creek (T. L. Hudson, unpublished data, 1982).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-417, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Henshaw, F.F., 1909, Mining in the Fairhaven precinct: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379, p. 355-369.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 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.

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