The Yellow Eagle is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Yellow Eagle MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Yellow Eagle
Commodity
Primary: Gold
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: Past Producer
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 (Geology): Age = Quaternary placer.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Swainbank and others, 2000
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production figures are not available.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The Yellow Eagle site occupies a large block of ground between the rich and productive placers on Ester Creek (FB034) and Cripple Creek (FB070), and it has probably been drilled and mined at one place or another since the earliest days of the district, the work being attributed to one or another of those creeks. However, it had never been mined as a whole, and there were indications that considerable gold remained. In 1996, Cripple Creek Venture developed it as a new mine that was worked by Yellow Eagle Mining Inc. Placer mining continued from a series of large open pits using heavy earth-moving equipment until 1999 (Swainbank and others, 1998; Szumigala and Swainbank, 1999; Swainbank and others, 2000).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This site occupies a large block of ground between the rich and productive placers on Ester Creek (FB034) and Cripple Creek (FB070), and it has probably been drilled and mined at one place or another since the earliest days of the district, the work being attributed to one or another of those creeks. However, it had never been mined as a whole, and there were indications that considerable gold remained. In 1996, Cripple Creek Venture developed it as a new mine that was worked by Yellow Eagle Mining Inc. Placer mining continued from a series of large open pits using heavy earth-moving equipment until 1999 (Swainbank and others, 1998; Szumigala and Swainbank, 1999; Swainbank and others, 2000). During the last stages of mining, when a pit just south of the Parks Highway reached its maximum depth, it uncovered the top of a weathered granitic body, and there was speculation that some of the gold over it was a residual placer.
References
Reference (Deposit): Swainbank, R.C., Bundtzen, T. K., Clough A.H., and Henning, M.W., 1997, Alaska's mineral industry 1996: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 51, 68 p.
Reference (Deposit): Swainbank, R.C., Clautice, K.C., and Nauman, J.L., 1998, Alaska's Mineral Industry 1997: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 52, 65 p.
Reference (Deposit): Szumigala, D.J., and Swainbank, R.C., 1999, Alaska's mineral industry 1998: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report SR 53, 71 p.
Reference (Deposit): Swainbank, R.C., Szumigala, D.J., Henning, M.W., and Pillifant, F.M., 2000, Alaska's mineral industry 1999: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 54, 73 p.
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