McCuen Gulch Mine, Bonnifield Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USAi
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McCuen Gulch Mine | Mine |
Bonnifield Mining District | Mining District |
Denali Borough | Borough |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
63° 58' 47'' North , 148° 26' 23'' West
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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McKinley Park | 185 (2014) | 36.0km |
Mindat Locality ID:
198805
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:198805:8
GUID (UUID V4):
2fce482e-d874-492b-83be-bd01d3bd0058
Location: The McCuen Gulch placer gold prospect is on a south-flowing tributary to Totatlanika River, approximately 0.5 miles upstream from Needle Rock. The map site is near the mouth of the gulch, in sec. 12, T. 11 S., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This is locality 58 of Clark and Cobb (1972).
Geology: McCuen Gulch drains an area of mid-Tertiary coal-bearing strata that overlie mid-Paleozoic Totatlanika Schist, composed predominantly of felsic and mafic metavolcanic and metavolcaniclastic rocks (Wilson and others, 1998). The schist is intruded by Tertiary hypabyssal plutons. The placer deposit is in poorly-sorted alluvium consisting of well-rounded clasts, mainly of coarse-grained schist. According to Maddren (1918), the gold is derived from bedrock schist rather than reconcentrated from the Tertiary gravels (Maddren, 1918).
Workings: Surface development, all prior to 1918.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
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