The Taylor Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Taylor Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Taylor Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tin
Secondary: Mercury
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: 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
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer gold mining has occurred along at least the upper 3 miles of Taylor Creek although prospects have been noted as far as 1.5 miles below the mouth of Fork Creek, a south tributary (Cady and others, 1955, Plate 1). An airstrip, water ditch, and mine buildings are present. Taylor Creek has been explored for a distance of about 1.5 miles downstream of the mouth of Fork Creek. The mine has been active at different times since Cady and others' report, including small-scale mining and prospecting through the 1990s (M. Henning, personal commun., 2000).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cady and others, 1955
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Cady and others (1955) reported that the Taylor Creek mine had produced a total of $90,000 worth of gold (about 2,500 ounces), mainly in 1950 and 1951.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold mining has occurred along at least the upper 3 miles of Taylor Creek, although prospects have been noted as far as 1.5 miles below the mouth of Fork Creek, a south tributary (Cady and others, 1955, Plate 1). The alluvial gravels are about 10 feet thick, the paystreak is about 250 feet wide, and bedrock is mid-Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the Kuskokwim Group. The heavy-mineral concentrates contain cinnabar and cassiterite; pyrite is abundant in concentrates from below the mouth of Fork Creek (Cady and others, 1955, p. 119). Cady and others (1955) reported that the Taylor Creek mine had produced a total of $90,000 worth of gold (about 2,500 ounces), mainly in 1950 and 1951. The mine has been active at different times since Cady and others' report, including small-scale mining and prospecting through the 1990s (M. Henning, personal commun., 2000).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountains quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cady, W.M., Wallace, R.E., Hoare, J.M., and Webber, E.J., 1955, The central Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 268, 132 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Taylor Mountains quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-384, scale 1:250,000.
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