Specimen Gulch

The Specimen Gulch is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Specimen Gulch

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nome

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

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

Physiography

Not available

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
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Extensive surface workings. The area has been mined since 1899.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1913

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Specimen Gulch heads in the high-bench gravels near the Summit claim (NM247); it also crosses a major east-side bench of Anvil Creek. Both the Summit and Anvil Creek bench placers contributed gold to the shallow deposits in Specimen Gulch (Collier and others, 1908, p. 191; Moffit, 1913, p. 84). In Specimen Gulch, gold occurred throughout an 8-foot section beneath a 1-foot muck layer. The gold was bright, coarse and not well waterworn (Collier and others, 1908, p. 191). In lower Specimen Gulch, bedrock is mainly graphitic schist, possibly between strands of the Anvil Creek fault (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]). Upper Specimen Gulch is underlain by orthogneiss and metavolcanic schist (Bundtzen and others, 1994). The area has been mined repeatedly from 1899 until the present.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Active

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

References

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): 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): 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): Moffit, F.H., 1913, Geology of the Nome and Grand Central quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 533, 140 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome C-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-247, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

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