Windy Creek Prospect, Bonnifield Mining District, Denali Borough, Alaska, USAi
Regional Level Types | |
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Windy Creek Prospect | Prospect |
Bonnifield Mining District | Mining District |
Denali Borough | Borough |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
63° 25' 47'' North , 148° 57' 36'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Cantwell | 219 (2011) | 4.3km |
McKinley Park | 185 (2014) | 33.8km |
Healy | 1,021 (2018) | 47.5km |
Mindat Locality ID:
202968
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:202968:2
GUID (UUID V4):
9cb1ad36-afc3-4210-9c11-7eb5c40c8d15
Location: This placer gold prospect is on Windy Creek, a tributary to the Jack River. The area of activity extends from the mouth of Windy Creek, upstream for about 3 miles. The map site is at the upper end of the placer activity, at the center of sec. 19, T. 17 S., R. 7 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian.
Geology: Windy Creek drains an area underlain by the Paleocene to Late Cretaceous Cantwell Formation, and by Mesozoic metasedimentary rocks. The lode source of the placer gold is not known.
Workings: Surface only.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
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Link to USGS - Alaska: | HE146 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Windy-McKinley DomainDomain
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