Alder Creek

The Alder Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Alder Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:

Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1905

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale hand mining took place at the turn of the century and reportedly in 1927. The area was sampled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the early 1960's. At that time 7 pan concentrates were taken at the stream mouth.

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

Comment (Production): Production Notes = A few hundred ounces of gold was recovered in 1902 and 1903 or about $12,000 (gold at $20.67/ounce) (Moffit, 1904). A little gold was reportedly mined from Alder Creek in 1927 (Cobb and Miller, 1981).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Alder Creek beach placer gold deposit consists of about one foot of beach gravel on eroded, dark gray, schist bedrock of early Paleozoic age. Fine, bright gold and some wire gold was found on the bedrock surface. Beach diggings of limited extent were reported to produce $8 to $10 per man in 1901 (Moffit, 1905).

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Miller, T.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Hughes, Kotzebue, Melozitna, Selawik and Shungnak quadrangles, west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-847-A, 14 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., Miller, M. L., and Pickthorn, W. J., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-796-B, 46 p., one sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in five quadrangles in west central Alaska (Hughes, Kotzebue, Melozitna, Selawik and Shungnak): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-627, 58 p.

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1905, The Fairhaven gold placers, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 247, 85 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in five quadrangles in west central Alaska (Hughes, Kotzebue, Melozitna, Selawik, Shungnak): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-627, 58 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources of the Kotzebue quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-421, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Mendenhall, W.C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10, 68 p.

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1904, The Kotzebue placer gold field of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 225, p. 74-80.

Reference (Deposit): Berryhill, R.V., 1962, Reconnaissance sampling of beach and rivermouth deposits, Norton Bay and Kotzebue Sound, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1, 13 p.

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