Hill Creek

The Hill Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Hill 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: 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

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The bedrock of biotite granite is deeply weathered and stained with iron (Prindle, 1908, p. 40).

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

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

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Open-cut mining took place in the valley floor sometime before 1908 (Prindle, 1908, p. 40). Evidence for more recent mining is the placer tailings and a mine marked on the Fairbanks (D-1) NW topographic map on Hill Creek ,but no other information is available.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1976 (OFR 76-662)

Comment (Production): Production Notes = There probably was some minor production before 1908, and relatively modern tailings along the creek indicate some production in recent years.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This placer deposit is developed on weathered, coarse-grained, porphyritic biotite granite (Brooks, 1925, p. 19; Prindle, 1908, p. 40). Gold is derived from a mineralized zone near a contact between Cretaceous granite and schist (Brooks, 1911 [B 480, p. 69]). The paystreak was said to be narrrow (Prindle, 1908, p. 40). The alluvium consists of granitic sand about 8 feet deep (Prindle, 1908, p. 40). The gold varies from from 750 to 934 fine (Glover, 1950).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary placer.

References

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1911, The mining industry in 1910, in Brooks, A.K., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, report on progress of investigations in 1910: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 480-B p. 21-43.

Reference (Deposit): Glover, A.E., 1950, Placer gold fineness: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 195-1, 38 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.

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): Brooks, A.H., 1925, Alaska's mineral resources and production, 1923: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 773, p. 3-52.

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