The Elephant Creek Gold Placer Mine is a gold mine located in Alaska at an elevation of 259 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 259 Feet (79 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 61.86889, -161.87139
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Elephant Creek Gold Placer Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Elephant Creek Gold Placer Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: Alaska
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
Year First Production: 1913
Year Last Production: 1940
Discovery Year: 1913
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Workings): UNDERGROUND METHODS USED BEFORE 1916. HYDRAULIC METHODS USED AFTER 1916.
Comment (Geology): MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS MESOZOIC-PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS OF GEMUK GROUP, WITH SMALL TERTIARY GRANITIC PLUTONS NEAR HEAD OF CREEK. ; REG.COM: SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD MAY BE TERTIARY GRANITIC PLUTONS NEAR HEAD OF CREEK.
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRADIENT ABOUT 150 FT/MI. LITTLE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON PLACER, USUALLY LUMPED IN WITH (DISAPPOINMENT CREEK) AND (WILSON CREEK). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): USGS MF-449, LOC. 9. LOCATION IS AT MOUTH OF ELEPHANT CREEK ON WILSON CREEK. PLACER EXTENDS UP ELEPHANT CREEK 2 MI. TO ITS HEAD. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): DISCOVERED IN WINTER OF 1913-1914. PROSPECTING WITH CHURN DRILL 1915. HYDRAULIC PLANT INSTALLED AND MINING CONDUCTED IN 1916. INTERMITTENT MINING UNTIL 1940.
Comment (Deposit): MODERN STREAM DEPOSITS CONTAIN PLACER GOLD AND SCHEELITE.
Comment (Commodity): RARE PLACER SCHEELITE IN CONCENTRATES
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-444, LOC. 9 (1972)
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 77-156, P. 70 (1977)
Reference (Deposit): USGS B 683, P. 59 (1918)
Reference (Deposit): USGS I-292 (1959)
Reference (Other Database): BAG-MF-444-9
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