Old Glory Creek

The Old Glory Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Old Glory Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tin

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

Land Status

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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

Not available

Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Cassiterite
Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1905

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold was first produced from Old Glory Creek in 1901 (Mendenhall, 1902). There are well-defined benches near Nelson Creek (Gulch; BN060) but mining was from gravel on schist bedrock in the active channel, primarily below the mouth of Nelson Creek. Placer concentrates contain hematite, pyrite, and cassiterite (Moffit, 1905). Most of the bedrock in the area is a metasedimentary schist and marble sequence of Lower Paleozoic age (Till and others, 1986). However, the headwaters of American Creek includes Crossfox Butte which is underlain by Cretaceous granitic rocks (Till and others, 1986).

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface open-cut placer workings and possibly some workings from underground drift mining are present.

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

References

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1905, The Fairhaven gold placers, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 247, 85 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 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): Mendenhall, W.C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10, 68 p.

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.

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