The Rebel Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Rebel Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rebel Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Circle
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 (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small scale placer operations were active in the 1980's.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the Bonanza Creek drainage is the Lower Schist unit described by Wiltse and others (1995) as a slightly calcareous quartz-muscovite schist, porphyroblastic-albite-quartz-chlorite-muscovite schist and lesser amounts of quartzose porphyroblastic-albite-chlorite schist. In the Bonanza Creek drainage, Freeman and others(1988, p. 14), mapped precious metal mineralization, sulfidemineralization, minor stockwork silicification and quartz-sericite-sulfidealteration of Bonanza Creek sequence rocks which include metaquartzite,pelitic calc-schist and metavolcanic schist. Detailed descriptions ofalteration were not completed for Rebel Creek. During 1988 placer gold was examined from Rebel Creek just above its confluence with Bonanza Creek. The gold was very fresh and angular and was dominantly wire gold with some small nuggets. Flakes were distinctly absent (Freeman and others, 1988).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Mining has been reported (see workings/exploration); however, amount of production is unknown.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Freeman and others, 1988.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Wiltse, M.A., Reger, R.D., Newberry, R.J, Pessel, G.H., Pinney, D.S., Robinson, M.S., and Solie, D.N., 1995, Bedrock geologic map of the Circle mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 95-02b, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Freeman, C.J., Adams, D.D., Balla, J.C., and Metz, P.A., 1988, Circle joint venture 1988 final report: Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks Exploration Inc. 23 p.
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