The Chunilna Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Chunilna Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Chunilna Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Alaska
District: Yentna
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 (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Several miles of claims staked in 1989 (Paige and Knopf, 1907). The only placer mine in the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle that operated during 1975 (Carnes, 1976).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production reported in 1975.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Carnes, 1976
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mine in alluvial deposits.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
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): Paige, Sidney, and Knopf, Adolph, 1907, Geologic reconnaissance in the Matanuska and Talkeetna basins, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 327, 71 p.
Reference (Deposit): Carnes, D.R., 1976, Active Alaskan placer operations, 1975: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 98-76, 90 p., 40 maps.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-716, 63 p.
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