Ptarmigan Creek Prospect, Bristol Bay Mining District, Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Ptarmigan Creek Prospect | Prospect |
| Bristol Bay Mining District | Mining District |
| Lake and Peninsula Borough | Borough |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
60° 36' North , 154° 42' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Port Alsworth | 159 (2017) | 49.0km |
Cobb (1976) indicates that the location of the creek is not given, and because no other mention of the creek occurs, the report is suspect.
Location: The location appears to include the whole of Ptarmigan Creek. Individual prospects not delineated. Location plotted as approximate midpoint of Ptarmigan Creek. Location could extend up to 13 km both upstream and downstream.
Geology: Brooks (1913) reported encouraging placer gold results from benches along Ptarmingan Creek. Ptarmigan Creek drains a diverse group of rocks: sedimentary rocks (unit KJs), volcanic rocks (unit Tv), plutonic rocks (unit TKi6), and the Chilikadrotna Greenstone. The Chilikadrotna Greenstone is a Late Silurian unit of weakly metamorphosed basalt, andesite, chert, limestone, and tuffaceous sedimentary rocks. Fossils from a limestone lens in the Chilikadrotna Greenstone suggest an early Late Silurian age (Bundtzen and others, 1979). Nelson and others (1983) described the unit KJs as interbedded lithic graywacke, silty sandstone, black shale, and local conglomerate. Irregular quartz segregations and veinlets are locally present. Small diorite bodies (unit TKi6) intrude these sedimentary rocks. One diorite pluton yielded a potassium-argon age on hornblende of 69.4 +/- 2.1 m.y. (Eakins and others, 1978) Adjacent to some of the larger igneous bodies are narrow contact aureoles of pelitic hornfels. Unit Tv includes: rhyolitic breccia, ash-flow tuff, flows, and intrusive rocks and subordinate mafic to intermediate flows. Potassium-argon ages for unit Tv range from 56.2 to 62.7 m.y. indicating a Tertiary age for these rocks (Eakins and others, 1978).
Workings: Unknown
Age: The placer gold is Quaternary, the source of gold could come from a variety of rocks with diverse ages.
Alteration: Not applicable
Production: No production
Reserves: No reserves
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined
Deposit Model: Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
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: | LC019 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Peninsular-Tlikakila DomainDomain
- Peninsular TerraneVolcanic Arc
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