The Alder Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Alder Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Alder Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence
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
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Not known
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mining operations are reported to have taken place over about the lower 1 mile of the main drainage. This would be at surface elevations of 260 to 310 feet.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the Alder Creek drainage is a chlorite schist assemblage with local metamorphosed mafic intrusive bodies (Sainsbury, 1972). The age of this assemblage is not known but it is probably Paleozoic. Gold was discovered in 1900 and about 1mile of the lower creek was reported to have been mined by 1908 (Collier and others, 1908). The gravel is reported to be 4 feet thick over broken limestone bedrock 0.5 miles upstream of the mouth (Collier and others, 1908, p. 279-280). The muck here was also 4 feet thick. The coarse gold is well -rounded and accompanied by pyrite cubes in heavy mineral concentrates.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Kachadoorian, Reuban, Hudson, Travis, Smith, T.E., Richards, T.R., and Todd, W.E., 1969, Reconnaissance geologic maps and sample data, Teller A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3, C-1, and Bendeleben A-6, B-6, C-6, D-5, and D-6 quadrangles. Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 377, 49 p., 12 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
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