The Perry Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Perry Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Perry Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven
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
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Holocene
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Pleistocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Late Tertiary to Pleistocene; the age of the Kougarok gravels (Hopkins, 1963).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hopkins, 1963
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = These basalt-covered terrace gravels are old channels that required underground drift mining; the extent and nature of these workings are not known.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This location includes terrace gravels on both the north and south sides of Perry Creek overlooking Pinnell River. The terrace gravels are capped by basalt flows about 200 to 250 feet vertically above the Pinnell River (Henshaw, 1910). One terrace sequence includes (bottom to top); 3 to 9 feet of gold-bearing gravel on schist bedrock, 20 feet of muck including wood fragments near the base (a 3 foot-diameter log is reported to have been encountered somewhere in the Perry Creek mine workings), 25 feet of basalt, an indeterminate thickness of nonauriferous gravel, and an indeterminate thickness of basalt (Hopkins, 1963, p. C32). Henshaw (1910) indicates that one terrace level is 52 feet higher than another in the area. The fine, bright gold here -- some nuggets worth $0.15 at $20/ounce -- was in quartz-rich gravel (Moffit, 1905). Most of the bedrock in the area is a metasedimentary schist and marble sequence of Lower Paleozoic age (Till and others, 1986). The basalt flows are part of the Pleistocene Imuruk Volcanics and the terrace gravels may be correlative with the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kougarok gravels (Hopkins, 1963).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
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.
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1905, The Fairhaven gold placers, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 247, 85 p.
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): Hopkins, D.M., 1963, Geology of the Imuruk Lake area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1141-C, p. C1-C101.
Reference (Deposit): Henshaw, F.F., 1910, Mining in Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 442, p. 353-371.
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