Fox Creek

The Fox Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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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

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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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