The Kiagna River is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Kiagna River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kiagna River
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nizina
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale prospecting, probably by shovel and pan, has occurred in the area.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1916
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Moffit (1916, 1918) reported that placer gold was known along upper parts of Kiagna River since about 1904. A small stampede to the area occurred in 1914, but little gold was probably produced. Valley glaciers have occupied the Kiagna River drainage. Bedrock in the area mostly consists of Paleozoic and Mesozoic metasedimentary and plutonic rocks (Hudson and Plafker, 1982).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This area is within the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bering Glacier quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-373, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1916, Mineral resources of the upper Chitina Valley, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 642-C, p. 129-136.
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1918, The upper Chitina Valley, Alaska, with a description of the igneous rocks by R.M. Overbeck: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 675, 82 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bering Glacier, Icy Bay, Middleton Island, and Yakutat quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1246, 41 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., and Plafker, George, 1982, Paleogene metamorphism of an accretionary flysch terrane, eastern Gulf of Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 1280-1290.
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