The Steamboat Creek is a silver mine located in Alaska.
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Steamboat Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Steamboat Creek
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
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: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Galena
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = In 1958, Pete Smith, a local placer miner, found some pieces of galena-bearing float in the valley of Steamboat Creek (Saunders, 1963; ATDM PE 49-15). He attempted to trace the float to its bedrock source by hand-trenching and trenching with a bulldozer. The Alaska Department of Mines investigated the area in the early 1960's by bulldozer trenching, hand-digging pits and auger hole drilling for geochemical sampling. By 1968, the owners of the lode prospect were conducting rotary drilling and intended to drill about 450 feet (Vance, 1968).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = In 1963, it was reported that the owners of the prospect planned to mine and ship ore from an exposed vein. It is not known whether or not mining took place (Saunder, 1963; ATDM PE 49-15).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic shear zone.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = A prospect shaft revealed a 7-foot-wide shear zone that strikes north and dips vertically (Saunders, 1963; ATDM PE 49-15). A channel sample cut across four feet of the shear zone assayed 0.18 ounces of gold per ton and 3.50 ounces per ton silver. Subsequent samples revealed only trace to 0.02 ounces of gold per ton and 0.70 to 1.31 ounces of silver per ton. The shear zone is at the contact between mica schist and quartz diorite. In 1963, a trial shipment of galena ore from a vein exposed in a trench contained 106.0 ounces of silver per ton, 0.02 ounces of gold per ton, 49.0% lead and 0.04% copper (Saunders, 1963; ATDM PE 49-15).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Saunders, 1963 (ATDM PE 49-15)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Vance, T., 1968, Examination of Steamboat Creek prospect, Fairbanks district, in 1968: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Prospect Evaluation 49-19, 2 p.
Reference (Deposit): Saunders, R.H., 1963, Report on the Pete Smith prospect, Steamboat Creek, Fairbanks district, Livengood quadrangle: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Prospect Evaluation 49-15, 21 p., 2 maps, scale 1:240.
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