The Windy Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Windy Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Windy Creek
Secondary: Anderson Gulch
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Kougarok
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 (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface open-cut placer operations including hydraulicking took place at least up to 1909 (Cobb, 1975).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold was reported here as early as 1902 (Collier, 1902) and placer mining took place by 1906 (Collier and others, 1908). Mining was along the lower part of Anderson Gulch and a bench along the north side of the Windy Creek valley. Gold was present in 2 to 4 feet of gravel over bedrock; pay included 1 to 2 feet of bedrock. Bedrock in the area of upper Windy Creek and Anderson Gulch is a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that is regionally faulted against Ordovician mafic-metavolcanic rocks to the north and east of Anderson Gulch (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
References
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 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): Collier, A.J., 1902, A reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 2, 70 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.
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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