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Valdez Creek Lode

Property Details


Interpreted mineral system (using mineral system classification of Hofstra and Kreiner, 2020*)

Activity by Year


Year Activity Status Operator Project Name Description
2017 Exploration Exploration Project Valdez Creek Mining Company, LLC In 2017 Valdez Creek Mining completed a 24-hole core drilling program totaling 19,988 feet, plus hand trenching and geochemical sampling.
2018 Exploration Exploration Project Valdez Creek Mining Company, LLC In 2018 Valdez Creek Mining drilled 23 holes totaling 16,059 feet at their Lucky Saddle prospect and seven holes totaling 3,980 feet at their Lucky Top prospect. Exploration work also included limited prospecting at their Timberline prospect.
2019 Exploration Exploration Project Valdez Creek Mining Company, LLC The Valdez Creek gold lodes are located in the headwaters of the Valdez Creek placer deposits in the south-central Alaska Range. Historical exploration identified five vertically stacked, gold-bearing zones over a vertical distance of 600 feet with a strike length of over 900 feet. The claims are currently being explored by Valdez Creek Mining LLC, who, in 2019 conducted a program of 3,800 feet of core drilling, 3,000 feet of exploratory trenching, and soil sampling.

Production Stats


Year Total Rock Mined (short tons) Waste Rock (short tons) Ore Mined (short tons) Ore Milled (short tons) Heap Leach Ore (short tons) Total Concentrate Produced (short tons) Pb Ore Grade % Pb Recovered (short tons) Zn Ore Grade % Zn Recovered (short tons) Au Head/Ore Grade (OPT) Au Recovered (troy ounces) Au Recovery % Ag Ore Grade (OPT) Ag Recovered (million troy ounces) Coal (short tons) Other Other Amount Other Units

Resources


Source Year Description Property Phase Category Resource (short tons) Cu % Cu (thousand pounds) Pb % Pb (thousand pounds) Zn % Zn (thousand pounds) Au (OPT) Au (thousand oz) Ag (OPT) Ag (thousand oz) Mo % Mo (thousand pounds) Co % Co (thousand pounds) Barite % Barite (thousand pounds) TREO % TREO (thousand pounds) Graphite % Graphite (thousand pounds)

* Hofstra, A.H., and Kreiner, D.C., 2020, Systems-Deposits-Commodities-Critical Minerals Table for the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020-1042, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201042