The Windy Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Windy Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Windy Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tin
Secondary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence
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 (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Not recorded
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The lower mile of Windy Creek, including the area of its mouth on Budd Creek, has been placer mined for gold. A small dredge operated here early in the century. Cinnabar is reported to be in heavy mineral concentrates from the placer operations but the reported presence of cassiterite has not been confirmed. The area of operations is 11 miles southwest, and across the continental divide from, the Kougarok tin prospect. Bedrock in the Windy Creek drainage is a metapelitic/metacarbonate assemblage of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. Another small area of historical placer operations appears to be present on upper Windy Creek in the Teller C-1 quadrangle. This location, about 0.4 miles of the creek starting 1 mile upstream from its confluence with Trilby Creek (a south tributary to Windy Creek), appears to have been the site of dozer and sluice operations at some unknown time.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Dredge mining took place on the lower mile of the creek and including the area of confluence with Budd Creek. Another local area of apparent dozer and sluice operations is 3.3 miles upstream from the confluence with Budd Creek (1 mile upstream of the mouth of Trilby Creek, a south tributary to Windy Creek).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Kachadoorian, Reuban, Hudson, Travis, Smith, T.E., Richards, T.R., and Todd, W.E., 1969, Reconnaissance geologic maps and sample data, Teller A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2, B-3, C-1, and Bendeleben A-6, B-6, C-6, D-5, and D-6 quadrangles. Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 377, 49 p., 12 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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