The Eagle Creek Gulch is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Eagle Creek Gulch MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Eagle Creek Gulch
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Thorium
Secondary: Tungsten
Secondary: Uranium
Location
State: Alaska
District: McGrath
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Shoreline placer Ti
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = White and Stevens, 1953
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some placer mining has taken place in the 1920s and 1930s but no production records were found.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model no. 39c)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the Eagle Creek Gulch prospect is on lands conveyed to Doyon Ltd. For additional information, contact Doyon Ltd. at 210 1st Ave., Fairbanks,?Alaska, 99701.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Eagle Creek Gulch placer occurrence is a poorly understood concentration of placer gold at the head of Eagle Creek, below the Stone gold skarn deposit (MD074). May be, in part, a residual placer deposit. Age of mineralization is unknown.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = radioactive minerals
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production tests were completed in the 1920s and 1930s; unkown production.
References
Reference (Deposit): White, M.G., and Stevens, J.M., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in the Ruby-Poorman and Nixon Fork districts, west-central Alaska, in 1949: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 279, 19 pages.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1974, Placer Deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 pages.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Medfra quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-365, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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