Garfield Creek

The Garfield Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Garfield Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Kougarok

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface, open-cut placer mining including dozer and sluice operations have taken place here. Sainsbury and others (1969) show 1,000 feet of placer workings just upstream of the Bendeleben B-6 quadrangle eastern boundary.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Early production is reported to be $25,000 or about 1,400 ounces (at $18 per ounce). Placer mining took place here after WW II and additional but unknown amounts of gold has been produced.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mining took place early in the century on a shallow , 2 foot-thick paystreak that rests on a white clay false bedrock (Collier and others, 1908). Initial mining produced $25,000 (about 1,400 ounces) in 1900-1901. Sainsbury and others (1969) report intensely mashed and veined slaty rocks supposedly near an inferred thrust fault somewhere in the vicinity of Garfield Creek. This is an area of extensive tundra cover and bedrock exposures are minimal. The mapping by Sainsbury and others (1969) does suggest that Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (Till and others, 1986) are present in this area.

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-417, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.

Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Kachadoorian, Reuban, Hudson, Travis, Smith, T.E., Richards, T.R., and Todd, W.E., 1969, Reconnaissance geologic maps and sample data, Teller A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3, C-1, and Bendeleben A-6, B-6, C-6, D-5, and D-6 quadrangles. Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 377, 49 p., 12 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

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