The Fisher Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Fisher Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Fisher Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
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
Name: Silt
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Maddren, 1915
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = About 6 prospect shafts 15 to 30 feet deep were sunk in frozen silt and gravel to bedrock, about 4 miles upstream from the mouth of Fisher Creek.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Fine placer gold was found at the mouth of Fisher Creek. Prospect shafts in frozen silt and gravel were dug about 4 miles upstream of the mouth, but without encouraging results (Maddren, 1915, p. 347). Bedrock was encountered in the prospect shafts at depths of 15 to 30 feet. The west headwaters of Fisher Creek are underlain by a small, undated felsic stock and nearby hornfels in sedimentary rocks of the mid-Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group (Box and others, 1993).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bethel quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-455, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Box, S.E, Moll-Stalcup, E.J., Frost, T.P., and Murphy, J.M., 1993, Preliminary geologic map of the Bethel and southern Russian Mission quadrangles, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2226-A, 20 p., scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Maddren, A.G., 1915, Gold placers of the lower Kuskokwim with a note on copper in the Russian Mountains: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622-H, p. 292-360.
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