The Carroll Creek Placer is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Carroll Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Carroll Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Juneau
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1881
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
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Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Comment (Location): USBM OFR 85-86, FIG. 4, LOC. 163. LOCATION IS AT MOUTH OF CARROLL CREEK. PLACER EXTENDS AT LEAST 0.25 MI. UPSTREAM FROM MOUTH. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): EVIDENTLY DISCOVERED IN 1881. CLAIM STAKED IN 1981, SOME SLUICING DONE IN RECENT YEARS.
Comment (Deposit): PLACER GOLD CAN BE FOUND IN CREEK.
Comment (Workings): SLUICING DONE IN RECENT YEARS.
Comment (Geology): MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS MES-PAL VOLCANIC ROCKS ; REG.COM: SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD UNKNOWN
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRADIENT 400 FT./MI. LITTLE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON DEPOSIT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Other Database): USBM-OFR-85-86-FIG-4-163
Reference (Deposit): USBM OFR 85-86, P. 48, FIG. 4, LOC. 163 (1986)
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