Logan Beach

The Logan Beach is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Logan Beach

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Iron
Secondary: Molybdenum

Location

State: Alaska
District: Yakutat

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

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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: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Magnetite

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Tarr and Butler, 1909.

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Gold (native)

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the Logan beach placer is within the Russell Fiord Wilderness area of Tongass National Forest.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Beach placer

Comment (Production): Production Notes = The beach had a very limited production--a maximum of a few hundred ounces of gold.

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface workings, rockers and sluices. The occurrence is one of the first placers discovered in the Yakutat quadrangle (Tarr, 1906; Tarr and Butler, 1909).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Logan beach is a wave-cut beach formed from gravelly terrace deposits of glacial material which form the bluffs behind the beach. The bedrock on the upland hills to the east of the deposit consists of graywacke and argillite of the Yakutat Group of Jurassic and Cretaceous age (MacKevett and Plafker, 1970). At the beach, gold occurred in thin transient deposits enriched in garnet or magnetite; the beach placer was derived by winnowing wave-action on weakly auriferous glacial gravels.? the placer could also contain reworked materials brought down from the Jura-Cretaceous bedrock. MacKevett and Plafker (1970, pl. 1) report anomalous amounts of molybdenum (3 to 10 ppm) in two stream sediment samples from the Logan Beach. Molybdenum is commonly enriched in organic shales as well as granitic rocks, but its source in the bedrock behind the Logan Beach is unknown.? Reimnitz and Plafker (1976, pl. I) reported 0.010 ppm gold in one sample from the beach.

References

Reference (Deposit): Reimnitz, Erk, and Plafker, George, 1976, Marine gold placers along the Gulf of Alaska margin: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1415, 16 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Yakutat quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-408, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Tarr, R.S., 1906, The Yakutat Bay region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 284, p. 61-64.

Reference (Deposit): Tarr, R.S., and Butler, B.S., 1909, Area geology, in Tarr, R. S. and Butler, B. S, The Yakutat Bay region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 64, p. 145-178.

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1918, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1916: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, 469 p.

Reference (Deposit): Thomas, B.I., and Berryhill, R. V., 1962, Reconnaissance studies of Alaskan beach sands, eastern Gulf of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5986, 40 p.

Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Plafker, G., 1970, Geochemical and geophysical reconnaissance of parts of the Yakutat and Mount St. Elias quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1312-L, 12 p.

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