Treasure Creek Prospect, Fairbanks Mining District, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Treasure Creek Prospect | Prospect |
| Fairbanks Mining District | Mining District |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough | Borough |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
64° 58' 37'' North , 147° 47' 56'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Fox | 417 (2011) | 8.7km |
| Farmers Loop | 4,853 (2017) | 9.0km |
| College | 12,964 (2011) | 13.3km |
| Fairbanks | 32,325 (2017) | 15.9km |
| Ester | 2,422 (2011) | 17.6km |
Mindat Locality ID:
200414
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:200414:6
GUID (UUID V4):
5f650ae6-3e82-4cf9-b6c8-32f74632d0d8
Location: The Treasure Creek prospect consists of a 1,500-foot by 1300-foot area of anomalous gold, arsenic, and antimony in soils. The location shown is in NW1/4 sec. 29, T. 2 N., R. 1 W., Fairbanks Meridian, just south of the headwater forks of O'Connor Creek.
Geology: The following geologic description is summarized from a report by Sam Dashevsky (1993) on work done by American Copper and Nickel Company (ACNC) on the Eagle Creek property in the early 1990's. Rock fragments from soil pits indicate the bedrock is quartz-mica schist with abundant quartz veinlets. (This area was mapped by Newberry and others (1996) as Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist). Three lines of soil samples on 400-foot by 100-foot grid defined a 1,500-foot by 1,300-foot area that is anomalous in gold, arsenic, antimony, and contains minor cobalt and cadmium. This prospect occupies a lobe of low magnetic susceptibility detected by an airborne geophysical survey.
Workings: A strong arsenic soil anomaly was identified in soil samples in the 1970's. Follow-up work by American Copper and Nickel Company found other anomalous trace elements and gold in the soils over the area (Dashevsky, 1993).
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
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| Link to USGS - Alaska: | FB073 |
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