The Camp Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Camp Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Camp Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Council
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Dredge tailings extend about 0.3 miles up Camp Creek from the mouth and about 0.2 miles downstream along the west bank of the Niukluk River. Early mining was by hand and hydraulic methods (Collier and others, 1908); a dredge operated here in 1915-18 and 1939-40 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978 (OF 78-181)
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Dredge tailings extend about 0.3 miles up the creek from the mouth and about 0.2 miles downstream along the west bank of the Niukluk River. Early mining was by hand and hydraulic methods (Collier and others, 1908); a dredge operated here in 1915-18 and 1939-40 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). The early minng encountered three feet of gold-bearing gravel beneath 3 feet of overburden. A 40-foot shaft on a bench near the mouth of Camp Creek encountered 20 feet of ice and sand over 12 feet of frozen gold-bearing gravel. Bedrock exposures are poor; it may be part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage or possibly an Ordovician metavolcanic assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.
Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.
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