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Honolulu Creek Occurrences, Valdez Creek Mining District, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Honolulu Creek Occurrences | Group of Occurrences |
| Valdez Creek Mining District | Mining District |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough | Borough |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
63° 1' 48'' North , 149° 19' 12'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Group of Occurrences
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Cantwell | 219 (2011) | 44.2km |
Location: Placer gold occurs in several places along Honolulu Creek, from its mouth upstream to Honolulu Pass. The map site is at about the midpoint of these occurrences, in the NW1/4 of sec. 8, T. 22 S., R. 9 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian. This is location D-21 of Balen (1990: OFR 34-90).
Geology: Honolulu Creek hosts several placer gold occurrences over a distance of about 12 miles. The occurrences were identified during regional sampling by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1980's (Balen, 1990: OFR 34-90; Balen and others, 1991). Lower Honolulu Creek drains Tertiary (Eocene?) granodiorite and granite intruding Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic metaturbidite (Wilson and others, 1998). At the head of the drainage basin, the bedrock consists of thrust slices of Upper Triassic metavolcanic, metavolcaniclastic, and subordinate metasedimentary rocks intruded by small stocks of Tertiary felsic rocks. The probably multiple sources of the placer gold in Honolulu Creek are unknown, but the rocks in its drainage area contain auriferous lodes elsewhere in the Healy quadrangle (see, for example, HE133 and HE209).
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
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: | HE132 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Chulitna-Broad Pass DomainDomain
- Peninsular TerraneVolcanic Arc
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