The Slate Creek (upper) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Slate Creek (upper) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Slate Creek (upper)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay
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: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Fechner (1988) noted that hand mining had taken place on Slate Creek, 1/4 mile above the mouth of Fox Creek (GO018), an east tributary to Slate Creek. He also noted that another placer camp was at the mouth of Caribou Creek, about 1/4 mile upstream of this location. Fechner (1988) collected seven sediment samples along about six miles of the Slate Creek drainage above the mouth of Wattamuse Creek. The gold content of these samples ranged up to 0.0014 ounce per cubic yard. Bedrock in the area includes Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, locally intruded by Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary granitic rocks and Jurassic mafic/ultramafic plutonic rocks (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Fechner, 1988
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some evidence of small-scale hand mining or prospecting is apparently present at this locality (Fechner, 1988).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Fechner, S.A., 1988, Bureau of Mines mineral investigation of the Goodnews Bay mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1-88, 230 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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