The Woodchopper Creek Placer is a gold, silver, and tin mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Woodchopper Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Woodchopper Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Primary: Tin
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
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 17 GLM3 AU, 1.9 GLM3 AG.
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Silver
Gangue: Ilmenite
Gangue: Picotite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Magnetite
Unknown: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Comment (Deposit): GOLD AND CASSITERITE IN DEEP CHANNEL AND ON BURRIED BENCHES 100-200 FT. BELOW SURFACE. MINE ON BENCH JUST EAST OF WOODCHOPPER CR. SHOWED 20 FT. OF GRAVEL ON BEDROCK; OVERLAIN BY 20 FT. OF MUCK, 40 FT. OF GRAVEL, AND ANOTHER 40 FT. OF MUCK. AURIFEROUS GRAVEL DISCOVERED IN FLATS NEAR MOUTH OF CREEK.
Comment (Geology): WOODCHOPPER CREEK MARKS SW END OF TIN BELT.
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRADIENT ABOUT 50 FT. PER MILE. LOCATION DESCRIPTION REPRESENTS ENTIRE LENGTH OF WOODCHOPPER CR.. MINING CENTERED AT ABANDONED VILLAGE OF WOODCHOPPER. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): USGS MF-371, LOC. 25. COORDINATES GIVEN FOR ABANDONED VILLAGE OF WOODCHOPPER, MARKED IN SE CORNER OF TANANA (A-3), APPROXIMATING CENTER OF PLACER. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): LARGE-SCALE DRIFT MINING PRECEDED BY PROSPECT DRILLING UNTIL 1956 AND PROBABLY LATER. OVER 100 MEN EMPLOYED IN 1915-16. PROSPECT DRILLING BY ADOLPH BOCK, 1926-41. OF 43 HOLES, 20 HAD GOLD, 21 CASSITERITE, AND 5 CASSITERITE WITHOUT GOLD.
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-371 (A-3), LOC. 25
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL. 1058-I, P. 370, 372, 388-89, 392-94
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 85-213, P. 25.
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