Iron Creek

The Iron Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Iron Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Innoko

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

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary. The source of the placer gold is probably a Cretaceous or Tertiary monzonite intrusion in the headwaters of Iron Creek (Bundtzen and others, 1987).

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the vicinity of Iron Creek consists of volcanic rocks; a monzonite intrusion underlies its headwaters (Chapman and others, 1985; S. Dashevsky, unpublished data, 2000). Gravel in Iron Creek consists of phyllitic rocks and granite, overlain by four feet of muck (Harrington, 1919). There was some placer mining in Iron Creek by 1917 (Harrington, 1919). Small-scale prospecting has occurred since that then.? Also see OP007-009.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Harrington, 1919

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Gold mining along Iron Creek was underway by 1917 (Harrington, 1919). Small-scale prospecting has occurred since then.

References

Reference (Deposit): Harrington, G.L., 1919, The gold and platinum placers of the Tolstoi district: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 692-F, p. 339-351.

Reference (Deposit): Chapman, R.M., Patton, W.W., and Moll, E.J., 1985, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Ophir quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-203, 1 sheet, 1:250,000 scale.

Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Green, C.B., Deagen, J., and Daniels, C.L., 1987, Alaska's mineral industry, 1986: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Special Report 40, 68 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Ophir quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-367, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction material) in the Iditarod and Ophir quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-576, 101 p.

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