The Tyone Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Tyone Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tyone Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum
Location
State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek
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 = Minor production reported (Balen, 1990) but probably based on a vague report by prospectors of gold plates worth 1 cent apiece in the headwaters of the Tyonek River (Paige and Knopf, 1907).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Balen, 1990
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mine in alluvial deposits.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Analysis of stream-sediment samples yielded 4 ppm Pt, >10 ppm Au (Balen, 1990).
References
Reference (Deposit): Balen, M.D., 1990, Geochemical sampling results from the Bureau of Mines investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 34-90, 218 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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): Kurtak, J.M., Southworth, D.D., Balen, M.D., and Clautice, K.H., 1992, Mineral investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, south-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1-92, 659 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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