Honolulu Creek

The Honolulu Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Honolulu Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek

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: Occurrence
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 = 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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