Togiak Bay

The Togiak Bay is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Togiak Bay

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Bristol Bay region

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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: Sand and Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Berryhill, 1963

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = There are no workings at this locality, although Berryhill (1963) noted several old hand-dug trenches at Tongue Point.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Maddren (1915, p. 358) reported that one man was recovering gold with a rocker on the Togiak Bay beach during 1914. Berryhill (1963, sample 86) collected beach samples along the west side of Togiak Bay and reported flour gold in heavy-mineral concentrate from this locality. The beach is a thin veneer of sand below a 40-foot-high bluff of glaciofluvial gravels that are considered to be the source of the gold.

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

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.

References

Reference (Deposit): Berryhill, R.V., 1963, Reconnaissance of beach sands, Bristol Bay, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6214, 48 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Hagemeister Island quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-362, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Maddren, A.G., 1915, Gold placers of the lower Kuskokwim with a note on copper in the Russian Mountains: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622-H, p. 292-360.

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