Venetia Creek

The Venetia Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Venetia Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nome

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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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 (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold was discoverd on Venetia Creek in 1900 and production through 1903 was $6,000 or about 290 ounces (Collier and others, 1908). The gold was in thin gravels, 3 to 4 feet thick, in a narrow (10 to 50 feet) pay streak on marble and chloritic schist bedrock. In places, most of the gold was in crevices in the upper 3 to 4 feet of bedrock. The gold was coarse, had a fineness of 938, and was commonly in pumpkin-seed shaped grains (Brooks and others, 1901). The uplands around Venetia Creek are mostly underlain by a schistose marble of probable Ordovician age that structurally overlies a metavolcanic assemblage of possible Ordovician age (Till and others, 1986). The metavolcanic assemblage could be exposed in parts of Venetia Creek.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

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

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale placer workings are present along 1.8 miles of the creek between elevations from 490 to 570 feet.

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Gold was discoverd on Venetia Creek in 1900 and production through 1903 was $6,000 or about 290 ounces (Collier and others, 1908).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

References

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): Brooks, A.H., Richardson, G. B., and Collier, A. J., 1901, Reconnaissance in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication, p. 1-180.

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.

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.

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