The Sutter Creek is a tin mine located in Alaska.
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Sutter Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sutter Creek
Commodity
Primary: Tin
Location
State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Alluvial placer Sn
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Heide and Rutledge, 1949
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined; only a few small areas of higher tin grades were identified by USBM churn-drilling.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
Comment (Production): Production Notes = A small amount of the 1,124 short tons of tin that have been produced from placers in the Potato Mountain area came from lower Sutter Creek.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The lower 1,000 feet of Sutter Creek has been mined, probably by a combination of hand methods and dredging. Fifty USBM churn-drill holes on 12 lines were completed between the creek mouth and the fork with Iron Creek.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the northern headwaters of Sutter Creek is thermally metamorposed thin-bedded metapelite, metasandstone, and minor impure metacarbonate rocks of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. These rocks makeup the relatively resistant upland of Potato Mountain that is interpreted to be underlain at depth by biotite granite (Hudson and Reed, 1997, p. 454). Significant lode tin deposits are present in the headwaters of Iron Creek, the northern headwater fork of Sutter Creek (Mulligan, 1965). The thin (1 to 10 feet thick) alluvial gravels of the active Sutter Creek drainage contain 0 to 1 pound of tin per cubic yard. Detrital cassiterite is present upstream from the previous workings to the fork with Iron Creek. The higher grades are present in the lower part of the drainage just upstream from areas of previous mining. Some of this tin is derived from the headwaters of Iron Creek but the higher grades in the lower part of the creek (including the area of previous mining) may be related to proximity to Buck Creek. .
References
Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., and Reed, B.L., 1997, Tin deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 450-465.
Reference (Deposit): Heide, H.E. and Rutledge, F.A., 1949, Investigations of Potato Mountain tin placer deposits, Seward Peninsula, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4418, 21 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.
Reference (Deposit): Mulligan, J.J., 1965, Tin-lode investigations. Potato Mountain area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6587, 85 p.
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