The Gold Run Creek area is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Gold Run Creek area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Run Creek area
Secondary: Discovery Pup
Secondary: Poorman Creek
Secondary: Gold Run Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chisana
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: 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: Gold
Comments
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production included in Chisana district; see Bonanza Creek area (NB079)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Contributor to Chisana district production of placer gold. Gold has also been noted downstream from Gold Run, on Glacier and Chavolda Creeks, though not in significant amounts
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Type of workings: surface. Intermittent mining since discovery in 1913.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer: stream, bench
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Deposits consist of auriferous gravels containing subrounded shale and graywacke clasts and some well-rounded lava and diorite clasts. Two placer deposits described in USGS B 622: one is 150 ft by 15 ft with 4.5-to 5-ft-deep gravel and one is a 500 ft by 40 ft section of frozen gravels running 11 to 15 ft deep. Top 1 to 4 ft of rippable bedrock was also sluiced. The lava and diorite clasts in the stream gravels appear to have been derived from Tertiary gravels capping Gold Hill to southeast of placer area.
References
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1930: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 836-A, p. 1-83.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., Singer, D.A., and Cox, D.P., 1975, Mineral resources map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-655-K, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-422, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1914, Mineral resources of Alaska in 1913: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592, p. 340-341.
Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1915, Mineral resources of Alaska in 1914: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622, 238 p.
Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1941, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1939: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 926-A, p. 1-106.
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1954, Geology of the eastern part of the Alaska Range and adjacent area: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 989-D, p. 63-218.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Jones, D.L., 1973, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nabesna A-2 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-749, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
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