The Treasure Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Treasure Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Treasure Creek
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: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
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Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
Not available
Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The following geologic description is summarized from a report by Sam Dashevsky (1993) on work done by American Copper and Nickel Company (ACNC) on the Eagle Creek property in the early 1990's. Rock fragments from soil pits indicate the bedrock is quartz-mica schist with abundant quartz veinlets. (This area was mapped by Newberry and others (1996) as Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist). Three lines of soil samples on 400-foot by 100-foot grid defined a 1,500-foot by 1,300-foot area that is anomalous in gold, arsenic, antimony, and contains minor cobalt and cadmium. This prospect occupies a lobe of low magnetic susceptibility detected by an airborne geophysical survey.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A strong arsenic soil anomaly was identified in soil samples in the 1970's. Follow-up work by American Copper and Nickel Company found other anomalous trace elements and gold in the soils over the area (Dashevsky, 1993).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Dashevsky, 1993
References
Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Dashevsky, S.S., 1993, Eagle Creek project (Au), Fairbanks district, Alaska: American Copper and Nickel Company, Inc., 60 p. (Report held by Sam Dashevsky, Northern Associates Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; can be examined with permission from current lease holders).
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