Ahtell Creek

The Ahtell Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Ahtell Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Chistochina

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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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

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene placer.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1938

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Ahtell Creek drains a large region known to be locally auriferous. Grubstake Creek (GU017) the most productive gold placer in the region enters Ahtell Creek about 4 miles above this site. A lode gold prospect, the Gold-Quartz prospect, (GU013), is in the Ahtell Creek canyon just above this site. A description of prospecting activities on Ahtell Creek in 1936 by Moffit (1938, p. 51) suggests that the Ahtell Creek placer is of river-bar type, formed by the reworking of low-grade materials. Moffit reported that the prospect was in the canyon of Ahtell Creek where auriferous gravel deposits of probable local derivation formed in the bends of the river and at its mouth.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer gold deposit, river-bar subtype (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Prospect activity was reported in 1936 (Moffit, 1938; Smith, 1939).

References

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1938, Geology of the Slana-Tok district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 904, 54 p.

Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-419, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1939, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1938: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 917-A, p. 1-113.

Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., 1966, Geology of the Slana district on south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 2l, 36b p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

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