Slate Creek (upper)

The Slate Creek (upper) is a gold mine located in Alaska.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Slate Creek (upper)  

State:  Alaska

County:  na

Elevation:

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 59.35, -161.16000

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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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