Discovery Creek

The Discovery Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Discovery Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Antimony

Location

State: Alaska
District: Koyukuk

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: Stibnite
Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Recent (about 1982) testing with suction dredge and evidence of drift mining in the early 1900s (Dillon, 1982).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

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

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = See also: Sukakpak Mountain (CH076).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Discovery Creek drains the Sukakpak Sb-Au vein occurrence (CH076), and the creek gravels contain clasts of stibnite-quartz vein material (Dillon, 1982). Although there is evidence of early workings on the creek (Dillon, 1982), there are no published descriptions of the deposit. The presence of gold in the creek is substantiated by reports of gold recovered with a suction dredge in 1982 (Dillon, 1982).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Dillon, 1982

Comment (Exploration): Status = Not determined

References

Reference (Deposit): Huber, J.A., 1988, The geology and mineralization of the Sukakpak Mountain area, Brooks Range, Alaska: Fairbanks, Alaska, University of Alaska Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 81 p.

Reference (Deposit): Dillon, J.T., 1982, Source of lode and placer gold deposits of the Chandalar and upper Koyukuk Districts: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 158, 25 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

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