Hastings Creek

The Hastings Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Hastings 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 = Placer gold tailings are locally present on Hastings Creek.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978 (OFR 78-93)

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = About 1.5 miles of lower Hastings Creek has, at least locally, been placer mined for gold. Mining included dredging in 1916-18 and 1930 (Cobb, 1978, OFR 78-93). Some of this mining was near or on Second Beach (NM256), as well as farther inland (Collier and others, 1908; Moffit, 1913). Most of the creek flows across older parts of the Nome coastal plain, including the projected trace of Third Beach (NM258).

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 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): 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.

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