Mine detail: Minnehaha Creek

Previously called 'Mud Creek'

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Location: Candle County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.94939, -161.9934
dep_id: 10308802
mrds_id: A015705
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Producer
ore: Gold
model: 119: Placer Au-PGE
Reporter: Anita Williams
References:
  • Deposit:: Mendenhall, W.C., 1902, Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak Rivers: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 10, 68 p.
  • Deposit:: Anderson, Eskil, 1947, Mineral occurrences other than gold deposits in northwestern Alaska: Alaska Territorial Division of Mines Pamphlet 5-R, 48 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources of the Candle Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-389, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
  • Deposit:: Herbert, C.F., 1979, Mud Creek, Candle Mining District, Alaska: unpublished report prepared for Noranda Exploration, Anchorage, Alaska, 37 p. (Report held by NANA Regional Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska).
  • Deposit:: Robson, J.M., Baer, R.L. and Cobb, W.F., 1983, Mud Creek project summary: unpublished report, Noranda Exploration, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, 32 p. (Report held by NANA Regional Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska).
  • Deposit:: Johnson, G.W., 1996, letter to NANA Regional Corp., Kotzebue, AK, October 16, 2 p. (Report held by NANA Regional Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska).
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