The Fox Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Fox Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Fox 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: 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
Not available
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Based on field observations in 1999, Fox Creek was probably placer mined in the 1980's.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the Fox Creek drainage is quartz muscovite schist, quartzite and chlorite quartzose schist with the upper drainage intruded by Cretaceous granite, tonalite and quartz diorite (Newberry and others, 1996). Based on field observations in 1999, Fox Creek had been placer mined, possibly in the 1980's, up to the head of the creek, in the northeast quarter of section 17, T. 2 N., R. 1 E., of the Fairbanks Meridian (J. Schaefer, 1999, field observation).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = No record of amount of production.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer gold deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This description
References
Reference (Deposit): Freeman, C.J., and Schaefer, Janet, 1999: Alaska Resource Data File, Livengood quadrangle: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-574, 464 p.
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