The Dead Creek (placer) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Dead Creek (placer) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dead Creek (placer)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Copper River
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Stream placer (Cox and SInger, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Jansons and others, 1984
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Five 0.1-cubic-yard samples contained 0.28 ppm to 0.0007 oz Au/cubic yard and 1% garnet in the concentrate (Jansons and others, 1984).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Alluvial deposits along Dead Creek contain clasts of slate, graywacke, phyllite, greenstone, and andalusite schist derived from the underlying Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group (Nelson and others, 1984; Jansons and others, 1984). Five 0.1-cubic-yard samples contained 0.28 ppm to 0.0007 oz Au/cubic yard and 1% garnet in the concentrate (Jansons and others, 1984).
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Site examined as part of a U.S. Bureau of Mines and U.S.G.S. mineral resource evaluation of the Chugach National Forest (Jansons and others, 1984; Nelson and others, 1984). Site is the Chugach National Forest.
References
Reference (Deposit): Jansons, Uldis, Hoekzema, R.B., Kurtak, J.M., and Fechner, S.A., 1984, Mineral occurrences in the Chugach National Forest, Southcentral Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 5-84, 218 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Nelson, S.W., Miller, M.L., Barnes, D.F., Dumoulin, J.A., Goldfarb, R.J., Koski, R.A., Mull, C.G., Pickthorn, W.J., Jansons, Uldis, Hoekzema, R.B., Kurtak, J.M., and Fechner, S.A., 1984, Mineral resource potential of the Chugach National Forest, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1645-A, 24 p., 1 plate, scale 1:250,000.
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