Kapon Creek Mine, Bethel Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Kapon Creek Mine | Mine |
Bethel Mining District | Mining District |
Bethel Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
60° 6' 35'' North , 160° 9' 36'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
198305
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:198305:3
GUID (UUID V4):
9291eea8-6c61-464e-9bd4-a244cf8f2df7
Location: Kapon Creek is an east tributary to the Eek River. The mouth of Kapon Creek is 9.5 miles downstream of the mouth of Rainy Creek (BH002) on the Eek River. This placer mine was referred to under the name 'Kapon Ck.' by Hoare and Cobb (1977). The map site is in the SE1/4 of section 6, T 1 S, R 63 W, of the Seward Meridian. It is approximately located, perhaps within miles, as the headwaters of this creek are about 4 miles further upstream from the map site.
Geology: Placer gold mining along Kapon Creek is reported to have taken place in 1914 and 1915 (Hoare and Cobb, 1977, p. 18). The lower part of the creek is in a glaciated area of outwash deposits. The upper reaches don't appear to have been occupied by glaciers but some outwash deposits may be present. The extreme headwaters of Kapon Creek are across a narrow saddle from the headwaters of Rainy Creek (BH002), where lode cinnabar mineralization has been identified (BH001). Coarse gravels in Kapon Creek were gound sluiced in 1914 and found to be of low grade (Maddren, 1915, p. 357). The gold was dark and flaky and accompanied by magnetite, arsenopyrite, and small cinnabar pebbles. Bedrock in the Kapon Creek drainage is clastic sedimentary rocks of the mid-Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group locally cut by felsic and mafic dikes (Hoare and Cobb, 1977; Box and others, 1993).
Workings: Kapon Creek has been prospected and some small surface workings are probably present locally along the creek.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au, Hg
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (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
4 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Arsenopyrite Formula: FeAsS |
ⓘ Cinnabar Formula: HgS |
ⓘ Gold Formula: Au |
ⓘ Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 1 - Elements | |||
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ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
S | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Fe | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
As | Arsenic | |
As | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Au | Gold | |
Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Hg | Mercury | |
Hg | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Other Databases
Link to USGS - Alaska: | BH020 |
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