The Kapon Creek is a gold and mercury mine located in Alaska.
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Kapon Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kapon Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bethel
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
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hoare and Cobb, 1977
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Kapon Creek has been prospected and some small surface workings are probably present locally along the creek.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold mining along Kapon Creek is reported to have taken place in 1914 and 1915 (Hoare and Cobb, 1977, p. 18). The lower part of the creek is in a glaciated area of outwash deposits. The upper reaches don't appear to have been occupied by glaciers but some outwash deposits may be present. The extreme headwaters of Kapon Creek are across a narrow saddle from the headwaters of Rainy Creek (BH002), where lode cinnabar mineralization has been identified (BH001). Coarse gravels in Kapon Creek were gound sluiced in 1914 and found to be of low grade (Maddren, 1915, p. 357). The gold was dark and flaky and accompanied by magnetite, arsenopyrite, and small cinnabar pebbles. Bedrock in the Kapon Creek drainage is clastic sedimentary rocks of the mid-Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group locally cut by felsic and mafic dikes (Hoare and Cobb, 1977; Box and others, 1993).
References
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Maddren, A.G., 1915, Gold placers of the lower Kuskokwim with a note on copper in the Russian Mountains: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622-H, p. 292-360.
Reference (Deposit): Box, S.E, Moll-Stalcup, E.J., Frost, T.P., and Murphy, J.M., 1993, Preliminary geologic map of the Bethel and southern Russian Mission quadrangles, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2226-A, 20 p., scale 1:250,000.
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