The Dry Creek Cut is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Dry Creek Cut MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dry Creek Cut
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: 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
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = the same as Tammany paleochannel. Tammany channel is probably mid-Wisconsin in age (Reger and Bundtzen, 1990).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = The total production from the Dry Creek Cut is not known.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The geology of the general area of the Dry Creek Cut is described in records HE194 and HE197. The Dry Creek Cut is the downstream portion of the Tammany paleochannel truncated by the cross-cutting younger Valdez Creek. The base of the paleochannel was higher in elevation than Valdez Creek. The cut was mined from its lower extent upstream as far as was possible without destroying the access road to Denali. The Tammany-Dry Creek paleochannel was filled with large boulders at its base and contained a very high grade placer. The descriptions of the Valdez Creek area (HE194 and HE197) that apply to the Tammany or A paleochannel also apply to the Dry Creek Cut.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The workings in this cut are impressive. In places, overburden approached 100 feet in depth. Large boulders are hand stacked adjacent to the pay channels that were mined. A telegraph pole(?) and wire are still present. The cut appears to be mined out, except for the pay gravels that remain beneath the road.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1981
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = No reserves remain.
References
Reference (Deposit): Ross, C.P., 1933, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849, p. 289-467.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, T.E., 1981, Geology of the Clearwater Mountains, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 60, 72 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Tuck, Ralph, 1938, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-B, p. 109-131.
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