Latitude: 64°52'51"N
Longitude: 164°21'25"W
Location: Goose Creek is a north tributary to the Casadepaga River. The mouth of Goose Creek is 2 miles downstream from the mouth of Canyon Creek at an elevation of about 250 feet. This site is in the headwaters of Goose Creek, about 3 miles upstream of its mouth. This is locality 58 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Placer gold mining started on lower Goose Creek in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901). Dredging started by 1909 and took place intermittantly to 1919 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). The lower part of the creek crosses creek terraces and terraces of the Casadepaga River and some bench mining occurred (see ARDF locality SO072). Smith (1910 ) reported that some mining took place at this locality (about 3 miles above the mouth) in creek gravels below the mouth of a small tributary. Bedrock of the Goose Creek drainage is pelitic schist of possible Cambrian or Precambrian age (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Small-scale placer mining occurred here prior to 1910.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
References
Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p. Smith, P.S., 1910, Geology and mineral resources of the Solomon and Casadepaga quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 433, 234 p. Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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