The Crooked Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Crooked Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Crooked 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: Prospect
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Miller and others, 1996
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Stream gradient less than 50 feet per mile.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer deposits are on benches east and southeast of Crooked Creek. Richest placers are where tributary gulches have cut into benches and concentrated gold. Claims were staked in 1910.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = placer
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Placer gold from Crooked Creek was mined farther south, in the Sleetmute quad.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Tertiary/Quaternary
References
Reference (Deposit): Cady, W.M., Wallace, R.E., Hoare, J.M., and Webber, E.J., 1955, The central Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 268, 132 p.
Reference (Deposit): Miller, M.L., Bundtzen, T.K., Keith, W.J., Bailey, E.A., Bickerstaff, Damon, 1996, Geology and mineral resources of the Stuyahok area, part of Holy Cross A-4 and A-5 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-505-A, 30 p.
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