The Honolulu Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Honolulu Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Honolulu Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek
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
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Balen, 1990 (OFR 34-90)
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Honolulu Creek hosts several placer gold occurrences over a distance of about 12 miles. The occurrences were identified during regional sampling by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1980's (Balen, 1990: OFR 34-90; Balen and others, 1991). Lower Honolulu Creek drains Tertiary (Eocene?) granodiorite and granite intruding Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic metaturbidite (Wilson and others, 1998). At the head of the drainage basin, the bedrock consists of thrust slices of Upper Triassic metavolcanic, metavolcaniclastic, and subordinate metasedimentary rocks intruded by small stocks of Tertiary felsic rocks. The probably multiple sources of the placer gold in Honolulu Creek are unknown, but the rocks in its drainage area contain auriferous lodes elsewhere in the Healy quadrangle (see, for example, HE133 and HE209).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, F.H., Dover, J.H., Bradley, D.C., Weber, F.R., Bundtzen, T.K., and Haeussler, P.J., 1998, Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-133, 17 p., 2 sheetsm, scale 1:500,000.
Reference (Deposit): Balen, M.D., and others, 1991, Executive summary of the Bureau of Mines investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication, 43 p.
Reference (Deposit): Balen, M.D., 1990, Geochemical sampling results from the Bureau of Mines Investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 34-90, 218 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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