The Timberline Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Timberline Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Timberline Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
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 (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1981
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene. The gold placer was probably formed after the last phase of glaciation.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface placer mine.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Timberline Creek drains an area underlain by phyllite and argillite intruded by small, Upper Cretaceous diorite stocks. A small amount of gold has been recovered from this placer deposit. The best values occur in a channel in the prograde delta where Timberline Creek exits its valley just above Valdez Creek. The placer gold was derived from the many small lode gold occurrences in the drainage basin (HE199, HE200, HE201, HE202, and HE203).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Total production is not known.
References
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1912, Headwater regions of Gulkana and Susitna Rivers, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 498, 82 p.
Reference (Deposit): Tuck, Ralph, 1938, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-B, p. 109-131.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, T.E., 1981, Geology of the Clearwater Mountains, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological "&" Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 60, 72 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
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