Kiagna River

The Kiagna River is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Kiagna River

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nizina

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

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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

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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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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