The Granite Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Granite Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Granite Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
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: Colluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hoare and Cobb, 1977
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mine tailings from open-cut operations are present along about 3/4 mile of lower Granite Creek.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = About 3/4 mile of lower Granite Creek has been placer mined for gold. Most of the Granite Creek drainage is within a mid-Cretaceous granitic pluton but the lower part crosses the contact with hornfels in Jurassic volcanic rocks (Box and others, 1993). Mining took place in 1938-1940 and in 1946 but additional information about the placer deposit is not available (Hoare and Cobb, 1977).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bethel quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-455, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Box, S.E, Moll-Stalcup, E.J., Frost, T.P., and Murphy, J.M., 1993, Preliminary geologic map of the Bethel and southern Russian Mission quadrangles, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2226-A, 20 p., scale 1:250,000.
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