The Sunset Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Sunset Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sunset Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Early small-scale workings occurred in 1907 (Smith, 1908) and 1924 (Smith, 1926). A dredge was moved here from Osborn Creek ,and the deposit was mined from 1934 to 1939 (Cobb, 1978 [OFR 78-93]).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1908
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au and beach placers (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This is probably a complex placer deposit developed, in part, by beach reworking of gold-bearing alluvium on the edge of the coastal plain where it is cut by Sunset Creek. The deposit was correlated with Third Beach deposits by 1907 (Smith, 1908, p. 214). The mine was operated on a small scale until 1934 when a dredge was brought here from Osborn Creek. The dredge began to operate late in the 1934 season and operated continuously into a short season in 1939.? the upper part of Sunset Creek flows southeasterly through the metaturbidite schist unit of Bundtzen and others (1994). Sunset Creek is the southernmost of a series of gold-bearing creeks that flow east to the Snake River valley. The others include Monument ((NM172), Sledge, (NM169), and Boulder (NM168) Creeks.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1908, Investigations of mineral deposits of Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 345, p. 206-250.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1926, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1924: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783-A, p. 1-39.
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