The Rainy Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Rainy Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rainy Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bethel
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: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some surface workings may be present.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hoare and Cobb, 1977
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Mining took place on a very small part of Rainy Creek in the Goodnews Bay quadrangle. Most of the placer mining along this creek was upstream to the northeast in the Bethel quadrangle (BH002; Hoare and Cobb, 1977, p. 44). Gold was discovered on the creek in 1911 and a little mining was reported in subsequent years until WW II. Some mining continued into WW II because cinnabar, a strategic mineral, was recovered with gold, especially below Arsenic Creek, an east tributary in the Bethel quadrangle. A total of 2,000 pounds of cinnabar and 6 flasks of mercury were reported to have been produced from the creek (Malone, 1962). The amount of mining that took place in the Goodnews Bay quadrangle is minor. Bedrock in the Rainy Creek drainage is sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = The Rainy Creek mine is within the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge and Togiak Wilderness.
References
Reference (Deposit): Malone, Kevin, 1962, Mercury occurrences in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Circular 8131, 57 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Condon, W.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Goodnews quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-447, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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