Sunshine Valley Occurrence, Bristol Bay Region District, Dillingham Borough, Alaska, USA

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This occurrence is within Wood-Tikchik State Park.
Location: Sunshine Valley is at the north end of Lake Aleknagik. This placer occurrence is very approximately located, perhaps within a few miles, inasmuch as placer gold is only reported to be from streams that drain the southwest side of Sunshine Valley. For this record, the map site is at the mouth of an unnamed creek, where it enters Sunshine Valley, in the E1/2 of section 23, T 8 S, R 58 W, of the Seward Meridian. This occurrence was included by Hoare and Cobb (1977) under the name 'Sunshine Valley'.
Geology: Mertie (1938, p. 88) reported a general area of lode mineralization and its relation to granitic stocks on the ridge southwest of Sunshine Valley (GO001), and noted that some placer gold had been found in the streams that drain eastward into Sunshine Valley from this ridge. This occurrence is arbitrarily located on the drainage that heads against the area of lode mineralization.
Workings: Reconnaissance geochemical sampling has been completed in the area.
Age: Holocene.

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

References

Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p. Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1938, The Nushagak district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 903, 96 p.

Mineral List

Gold

1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.