Hot Springs Creek

Location: Alaska, United States (65.477, -144.670 approx.)

Commodities: rare earth elements; thorium; uranium; tungsten

Deposit model: Sn greisen · unclassified

Geology

Area underlain by Tertiary granite. The granite is light gray biotite-hornblende-tourmaline monzogranite to syenogranite (1). Uranium- and/or thorium-bearing allanite, sphene and zircon, and scheelite were found in placer concentrate samples. This site is a U/Th-W-REE geochemical anomaly. (Cobb (1976))

Exploration and site history

• History: In 1946, Moxham and West (1953) investigated the headwater area of Hot Springs Creek (62, fig. 19) for radioactive minerals. They found small amounts of allanite and a little cinnabar. Although Hot Springs Creek heads in the same area as Humboldt Creek in the Fairhaven district, no gold or cassiterite was reported. (Cobb (1973))
• Site: The location is the approximate location of placer claims active in 1976 to 1979. Hot Springs Creek originates southwest of Circle Hot Springs and flows just north of town where it empties into a marsh. (Cobb (1976))
• Inactive — Inactive, 1980 (Cobb (1976))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.