The Crooked Creek Placer is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Crooked Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Crooked Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Tin
Location
State: Alaska
District: Ruby
Land Status
Land ownership: State
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: 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 (Location): USGS MF-405, LOC. 7. STRIP MINE MARKED ON RUBY (B-5) JUST NORTH OF CROOKED CR. ON WEST BENCH OF BIRCH CR. PLACER GROUND ALSO ALONG CROOKED CR. NEAR MOUTH. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): EXPLORED BY SHAFTS SUNK ON LOW TERRACE SOUTH OF CREEK. MINING CHIEFLY IN LOWEST PART OF CREEK JUST ABOVE BIRCH CREEK. DRIFT MINING REPORTED.
Comment (Deposit): A LITTLE GOLD FOUND IN A SMALL PAYSTREAK NEAR MOUTH; SEVERAL FEET OF GRAVEL WITH CLAYEY LAYERS BENEATH 40-50 FT. OF MUCK. DEPOSITS OF CROOKED CR. MERGE WITH THOSE OF BIRCH CR.; AS THE DEPOSITS OF BIRCH CR. CONTAIN CASSITERITE, IT IS ASSUMED THAT AT LEAST SOME OF THE MATERIAL MINED ON CROOKED CR. ALSO CARRIED CASSITERITE. DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH DEPOSITS ON THE LOWER PART OF VALLEY FROM THOSE OF BIRCH CREEK.
Comment (Workings): SHAFTS SUNK APPROXIMATELY 50 FT. TO BEDROCK FOR DRIFT MINING.
Comment (Geology): MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS GRANITE AND SCHIST.
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET PER MILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-405 (B-5), LOC. 7
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 239, P. 42-43.
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 77-168 D, P. 85, LOC. 14
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 864-C, P. 157-158
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