Wet Gulch

The Wet Gulch is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Wet Gulch

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Willow Creek

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
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 (Reference): Primary Reference = Ray, 1954

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Assessment work on placer claims was carried out in 1950 (Ray, 1954).

Comment (Production): Production Notes = None known.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold claims on stream. The bedrock in the Wet Gulch drainage is Jurassic (?) quartz-albite-chlorite (+/- garnet-biotite) pelitic schist.

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Very little information on site. Years of prospecting on claims held at confluence of Wet Gulch and Willow Creek, locality 68 of Cobb (1973), resulted in no appreciable production.

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

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials in the Anchorage quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1095, 184 p.

Reference (Deposit): Ray, R.G., 1954, Geology and ore deposits of the Willow Creek Mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1004, 86 p.

Reference (Deposit): Jasper, M.W., 1962, Willow Creek gold district activity, Anchorage quadrangle: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals report for the year 1962, p. 75-84.

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