Michigan Creek Bench Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Michigan Creek Bench Mine | Mine |
Iditarod Mining District | Mining District |
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
62° 14' 21'' North , 157° 20' 41'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
198855
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:198855:3
GUID (UUID V4):
a8906dad-9559-4a66-a0ea-ca271cda6b8e
Location: The Michigan Bench placer mine is near the mouth of a minor north-flowing tributary of Michigan Creek. The mine is about 1.3 mile west-northwest of the mouth of Michigan Creek at an elevation of about 500 feet. It is about 0.3 mile southeast of the center of section 24, T. 25 N., R. 44 W., of the Seward Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The Michigan Bench is a small placer mine near the mouth of a small north-flowing, unnamed tributary of Michigan Creek. The deposit is on a terrace that probably represents an ancestral alluvial fan at the base of the small gulch that flows northeast at the mine. The gulch drains an area underlain by a swarm of granite porphyry and granodiorite dikes and sills exposed at the heads of Julian (ID177) and Spruce Creeks (ID176) (Miller and Bundtzen, 1994; Miller, Bundtzen, and Gray, 2005). In addition to gold, the principal heavy minerals in concentrate include cinnabar, garnet, and magnetite (Bundtzen, Cox, and Veach, 1987). The garnets are probably derived from garnetiferous granite-porphyry intrusions identified during geologic mapping southwest of the mine (Miller and Bundtzen, 1994). The Michigan Bench produced 125 ounces of gold during the early 1980s (Miller, Bundtzen, and Gray, 2005).
Workings: Placer gold was located on Michigan Creek in 1911 (Brooks, 1912). Samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys in the 1980s (Bundtzen, Cox, and Veach, 1987).
Alteration: None.
Production: The Michigan Bench produced 125 ounces of gold during the early 1980s (Miller, Bundtzen, and Gray, 2005).
Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Ag, Hg
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
3 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Cinnabar Formula: HgS |
ⓘ 'Garnet Group' Formula: X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
ⓘ 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 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
Unclassified | |||
ⓘ | 'Garnet Group' | - | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
O | ⓘ Garnet Group | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Garnet Group | X3Z2(SiO4)3 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
Au | Gold | |
Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Hg | Mercury | |
Hg | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Other Databases
Link to USGS - Alaska: | ID178 |
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