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Boulder Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Molybdenum
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Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308582
Record type Site
Current site name Boulder Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -144.01263, 62.77968 (WGS84)
Relative position This placer (Cobb, 1979 [OF 79-1247 p. 6] is near the head of Boulder Creek (which is not named on the Gulkana D-1 quadrangle) at an elevation of about 3,800 feet. The prospect is about 1000 feet south of the center of section 36, T. 12 N., R. 7 E., Copper River Meridian. The prospect is shown as a placer on figure 5 of Richter (1966). It is shown as location 22 of Richter and Matson (1972) and locality 21 of MacKevett and Holloway (1977).
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Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
BC deposit profile C01. C02
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -144.01263, 62.77968
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Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Boulder Creek is mainly underlain by altered volcanic rocks of the Pennsylvanian to Permian, Tetelna Formation. The mine approximately coincides with a dike-like intrusion of Jurassic diorite which cuts the Tetelna Formation. The dike-like intrusion strike north-northwest for at least a mile (Richter 1966; Richter and Matson, 1968, figures 4-8; WGM, written communication. 1980). Stream sediment samples collected on the dike and below it in Boulder Creek were anomalous in gold. Richter and Matson (1968) also found somewhat anomalous amounts of molybdenum (6 to 11 ppm) in stream sediments collected on or near the dike.
  • Age = Holocene placer.

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Chistochina

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Probably some gold was recovered during prospecting activities at the head of Boulder Creek.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The area was prospected in the mid 1930s. Boulder Creek is almost certainly one of two unnamed gold-bearing creeks described briefly by Moffit (1938, p. 50-51) as 'two short streams that flow eastward from the divide at the head of Grubstake Creek into Porcupine Creek carry sufficient gold to encourage prospecting.' The other unnamed east-flowing auriferous creek is almost certainly Slope Creek (GU020). Moffit (1954, p. 195) also refers to easterly flowing, gold-bearing streams in the vicinity, one of which is probably Boulder Creek. Richter (1966) noted prospecting or small-scale placer mining in Boulder Creek.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency Database name Acronym Record ID Notes
USGS Alaska Resource Data File ARDF GU016

Bibliographic references

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    Richter, D.H., 1966, Geology of the Slana district on south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 2l, 36b p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

  • Deposit

    Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., 1968, Distribution of gold and some base metals in the Slana area, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 593, 20 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1247, 36 p.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

  • Deposit

    Moffit, F.H., 1938, Geology of the Slana-Tok district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 904, 54 p.

  • Deposit

    Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-419, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Richter and Matson, 1968

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Deposit Other Comments = The association of stream sediment samples with anomalous gold and molybdenum near the elongate diorite pluton suggests that the intrusive and its contacts should be prospected for lode occurrences of gold and other metals.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-DEC-00 W.T. Ellis Alaska Earth Sciences
Reporter 20-DEC-00 Hawley, C.C. Hawley Resource Group
Reporter 20-DEC-00 W.J. Nokleberg U.S. Geological Survey