The Crooked Creek is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Crooked Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Crooked Creek
Secondary: Clow and Strands
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
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: Past Producer
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
Not available
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface workings only.
Comment (Production): Production Notes = No details are available. Production took place in 1950s (Ted Almasy, personal communication, 1998).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Brown, 1926
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = There is little data available for the Crooked Creek placer gold deposit. The creek heads into monzonite at top of ridge which is the presumed lode source for placer gold. (Ted Almasy, personal communication, 1998). There is no information available concerning average grade, dimensions, or heavy mineral content.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model no. 39c)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = See Eagle Gulch (MD075) and Eagle Creek (MD076). The Crooked Creek mine is on land selected or conveyed to Doyon Ltd. For further information, contact Doyon Ltd. at 210 1st Ave., Fairbanks, Alaska, 99701.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Placer gold
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1986, Kardex claim overlays for the Medfra quadrangle, file 65-14, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Brown, J.S., 1926, The Nixon Fork country: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783. p. 97-144.
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