King Salmon River

The King Salmon River is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: King Salmon River

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Bristol Bay region

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

Not available

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 (Geology): Geologic Description = Mertie (1938, p. 91) reported that coarse gold was found in the upper valley of the King Salmon River in1907. King Salmon River is a large west tributary to the Nushagak River. It flows east from headwaters along a low divide that separates it from the drainage of Tikchik River. Bedrock in the King Salmon River drainage is mid-Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the Kuskokwim Group locally intruded by Upper Cretaceous or Lower Tertiary granitic and hypabyssal felsic rocks. Clark and others (1970 [OF 438]) reported analytical data for stream sediments and one rock sample in the area of USGS benchmark King. Several of the stream-sediment samples in this area contained anomalous amounts of metals, including Ag, As, B, and Cu. The rock sample, from near the benchmark, contained weakly anomalous amounts of Ag and As. Bedrock in this area includes a small area of felsic intrusive rocks surrounded by hornfels (Clark and others, 1970 [OF 438]).

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

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Clark and others, 1970 (OF 438)

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountains quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.

Reference (Deposit): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1938, The Nushagak district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 903, 96 p.

Reference (Deposit): Clark, A.L., Condon, W.H., Hoare, J.M., and Sorg, D.H., 1970, Analyses of rock and stream sediment samples from the Taylor Mountains C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 438, 89 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Taylor Mountains quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-384, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.

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