The Denali Bench is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Denali Bench MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Denali Bench
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: Prospect
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 (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1971
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = There is a large resource of sub-economic gold-bearing gravels.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale mechanical and hydraulic operations have tested the tenor of the exposed gravels. Some drilling has been completed on portions of the bench gravels.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Denali Bench gravels, as defined by Smith (1971), are on the south side of Valdez Creek upstream from the Dry Creek Cut (HE195). The gravels occur both on the bedrock bench and in a paleochannel. The paleochannel contains large, rounded boulders; it grades upwards into well-bedded fluvial gravels. All lithologies in the gravels appear to have been derived from within the Valdez Creek valley.
References
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): Smith, T.E., 1971, Geology, economic geochemistry, and placer gold resources of the western Clearwater Mountains, east-central Alaska: Reno, University of Nevada, Ph.D. dissertation, 440 p.
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