Eagle Creek

The Eagle Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Eagle Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Mercury

Location

State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence

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

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Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Not reported

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the Bering Creek drainage is a metapelitic sequence that is locally cut by metamorphosed mafic intrusive bodies (Sainsbury, 1972). The age of this sequence is uncertain but it is probably Paleozoic.?At least some placer mining on this part of Eagle Creek is recent compared to that in other areas of the Teller A-3 quadrangle. Sainsbury and others (1969) indicate that mining was taking place in 1968 or 1969. These operations took place along 0.9 miles of the main drainage between surface elevations of 550 and about 635 feet (both downstream and upstream of the mouth of Walker Creek, a south tributary to Eagle Creek). They start about 2.25 miles upstream of the confluence with Right Fork Bluestone River and 1 mile upstream of the mouth of Bering Creek. They were probably dozer and sluice opeations. Cinnabar pebbles are reported to be present in heavy mineral concentrates but otherwise the character of the placer deposit has not been described.

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mining operations, some as recent as 1968 or 1969, took place along 0.9 miles of the main drainage between surface elevations of 550 and about 635 feet (both downstream and upstream of the mouth of Walker Creek, a south tributary to Eagle Creek). They start about 2.25 miles upstream of the confluence with Right Fork Bluestone River and 1 mile upstream of the mouth of Bering Creek. They were probably dozer and sluice opeations.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

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.

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

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