Location: Occurrences of placer gold are present in a several-square-mile area centered on USGS benchmark Anchor (Eppinger, 1993). The map site is at an elevation of 1,500 feet on one of the drainages flowing north from these uplands in the SE1/4 section 34, T 16 N, R 31 W, of the Seward Meridian. The map site is chosen to represent the general area of gold occurrences.
Geology: Pan concentrates from several drainages in this area contain detrital gold (Eppinger, 1993). The gold is subangular to angular and includes some grains to 1 mm across with very delicate features, such as serrated edges (Eppinger, 1993). Bedrock in the area is dominantly Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks (Eppinger, 1993).
Age: Quaternary.

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

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Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

ⓘ Gold

Mineral List

ⓘ Native Gold

1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Native Gold

Formula: Au

References:

(2008) Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF) Open-File Report 2008-1225. US Geological Survey

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 1 - Elements
ⓘ	Native Gold	1.AA.05	Au

List of minerals for each chemical element

Au	Gold
Au	ⓘ Native Gold	Au

Other Databases

Link to USGS - Alaska:	LH005

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References

Eppinger, R.G., 1993, Gold and cinnabar in heavy-mineral concentrates from stream-sediment samples collected from the western half of the Lime Hills 1 degree x 3 degree quadrangle, Alaska, in Dusel-Bacon, Cynthia, and Till, A.B., eds., Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2068, p. 91-100.

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