The Cripple River is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Cripple River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cripple River
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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 (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Attempts were made in 1903 and subsequent years to mine a placer gold deposit on a Cripple River bench below Elizabeth Creek. These attempts apparently failed because of leakage from one or more ditches constructed to develop the project (Collier and others, 1908). No recent activity is known at the site.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The prospect is a gravel bench on bedrock, 10 feet above and to the north above of Cripple River; Collier and others (1908, p. 210) reported it to contain an economic deposit of placer gold. A proposal was made to hydraulically mine the deposit, and at least two ditches were built to supply water to the prospect. One 4.5-mile-long ditch was completed in 1903. The ditch leaked badly, and a second ditch was constructed; it also is believed to have failed. No data exist on the gold content of the bench deposit.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
References
Reference (Deposit): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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