The Boulder Creek (= Grouse Creek) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Boulder Creek (= Grouse Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Boulder Creek (= Grouse Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Koyuk
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
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 placer mine workings have been noted here (West, 1948) but their success in recovering gold is uncertain.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = West, 1953
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = West (1953) noticed the remains of old placer mine workings on this creek, as well as coal-bearing rocks in its headwaters, and collected a slightly radioactive heavy-mineral concentrate containing ilmenite, magnetite, garnet, and sphene. The Death Valley sandstone uranium deposit (BN089) is now known to be in the headwaters of this stream (Dickinson and others, 1987). The upper part of Boulder Creek approximately coincides with the contact between the Cretaceous Darby pluton to the west and early Eocene continental sediments and basalt to the east.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = radioactive minerals
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
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): 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): Dickinson, K.A., Cunningham, K.D., and Ager, T.A, 1987, Geology and origin of the Death Valley uranium deposit, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 82, p. 1558-1574.
Reference (Deposit): West, W.S., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1948: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 300, 7 p.
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