Left Fork Dome Creek

The Left Fork Dome Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Left Fork Dome Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Kougarok; Iron Creek

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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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

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Extensive, small-scale placer mining was carried out on this creek by 1908.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1909

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Most of the lower parts of Left Fork Dome Creek were placer mined during the first few years of mining in the area. Production was estimated to be about $20,000 or almost 1,000 ounces of gold by 1908 (Smith, 1909). Surface water was lost to underground channels (karst ?) in the marble of bedrock. Bedrock rock is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

References

Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1909, Recent developments in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379-F, p. 267-301.

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): 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): 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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