Chitsia Creek

The Chitsia Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Chitsia Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Kantishna

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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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 (Production): Production Notes = There are no indications of production.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Bond, 1985

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer gold was first discovered in the stream gravels of Chitsia Creek by George Wickersham during the 1903 expedition to Mt. McKinley (Bundtzen and others, 1976). The area was later mapped by Chapman and Yeend (1981).

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the Chitsia Creek prospect is located on land selected by or conveyed to Doyon, Limited. For more information, contact Doyon, Limited.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Along Chitsia Creek, north of Chitsia Mountain, the geologic units are Miocene to Pliocene Nenana gravels overlain by unconsolidated Quaternary silt and colluvium. The Nenana gravels consist of weakly consolidated pebble conglomerate and thin-bedded sandstone and claystone (Chapman and Yeend, 1981). Regionally, the area contains a system of northeast-trending strike-slip and related conjugate faults associated with Cretaceous to Tertiary plutonic rocks and coeval or younger volcanic rocks (Clautice and others, 1993). . Float collected from Chitsia Creek, north of Chitsia Mountain, consisted of quartz-muscovite schist, white bull quartz with iron-oxide, and biotite-feldspar-quartz gneiss (Bond, 1985). A pan concentrate from Chitsia Creek assayed by the acid digestion method contained 340 ppb Au, 60 ppm Cu, 10 ppm Pb, 170 ppm Zn, 3 ppm Mo, 20 ppm As, and 10 ppm W (Bond, 1985). . Placer gold was discovered in the stream gravels of Chitsia Creek by George Wickersham during the 1903 expedition to Mt. McKinley (Bundtzen and others, 1976). There are no indications of production.

References

Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Smith, T.E., and Tosdal, R.M., 1976, Progress report: Geology and mineral deposits of the Kantishna Hills, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report AOF-98, 80 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Chapman, R.M., 1981, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Kantishna River and Ruby quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-170, 94 p.

Reference (Deposit): Bond, James, 1985, Geologic field examinations in Doyon Limited, regional selection block 9: Doyon Limited Report 85-19, 179 p. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska).

Reference (Deposit): Clautice, K.H., Bowman, N.D., Clough, J.G., Gilbert, W.G., Kline, J.T., Smith, T.E., and Blodgett, R.B., 1993, Land selection Unit 8 (Kantishna River, Ruby, and Medfra quadrangles): References, lead isotope, geochemical and major oxide data: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 42 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1977, Placer deposit map of central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-168B, 64 p., 1 map, scale 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): Chapman, R.M., and Yeend, W., 1981, Geologic reconnaissance of the east half of the Kantishna River quadrangle and adjacent areas, in Albert, N.R.D., and Hudson, T., eds, The United States Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishments during 1979: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 823-B, 149 p.

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