The Ready Bullion Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Ready Bullion Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ready Bullion Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: 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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary placer.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The creek was placer mined from 1907 to 1914 (Cobb, 1976 [OFR 76-662]), and more recently, as indicated by workings marked on the Fairbanks (D-3) SE topographic map. In 1996, R.B. Gravel Co. (Jerry Hassel) mined a paystreak along Ready Bullion Creek (Swainbank and others, 1997, p. 26).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1976 (OFR 76-662)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Ready Bullion Creek drains an area underlain by quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist of the Fairbanks Schist and amphibolite and biotite schist of the Muskox sequence (Newberry and others, 1996). Placer gravels were reported to be as much as 80 feet deep (Prindle and Katz, 1913, p. 110). The creek was mined from 1907 to 1914 with production well over 25,000 ounces of gold (Cobb, 1976 [OFR 76-662]). Ready Bullion Creek has been mined to the present however there is little record of the details. Recent mining has been concentrated on upper Ready Bullion Creek, notably at the site shown on the current Fairbanks (D-3) SE topographic map.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Production): Production Notes = The creek was mined from 1907 to 1914 with production well over 25,000 fine ounces (Cobb, 1976, OFR 76-662). There is no production information available for more recent mining which has continued inermittently to the present.
References
Reference (Deposit): Chapin, Theodore, 1914, Lode mining near Fairbanks, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592-J, p. 321-355.
Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Chapman, R.M., and Foster, R.L., 1969, Lode mines and prospects in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D, 25 p., 1 plate.
Reference (Deposit): Eakin, H.M., 1915, Placer mining in Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622-I, p. 366-373.
Reference (Deposit): Chapin, Theodore, 1914, Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592-J, p. 357-362.
Reference (Deposit): Prindle, L.M., and Katz, F.J., 1913, Detailed description of the Fairbanks district, in Prindle, L. M., A geologic reconnaissance of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 525, p. 59-152.
Reference (Deposit): Ellsworth, C.E., 1910, Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 442, 432 p.
Reference (Deposit): Ellsworth, C.E., and Parker, G.L., 1911, Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 480, 325 p.
Reference (Deposit): Ellsworth, C.E., 1912, Placer mining in the Fairbanks and Circle Disctricts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 520, p. 240-245.
Reference (Deposit): Ellsworth, C.E., and Davenport, R.W., 1913, Placer mining in the Yukon-Tanana region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 542, 303 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Prindle, L.M., 1908, The Fairbanks and Rampart quadrangles, Yukon-Tanana region, Alaska, with a section on the Rampart placers, by F.L. Hess, and a paper on the water supply of the Fairbanks region, by C.C. Covert: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 337, 102 p.
Reference (Deposit): Swainbank, R.C., Bundtzen, T. K., Clough A.H., and Henning, M.W., 1997, Alaska's mineral industry 1996: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 51, 68 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.
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