The Peluk Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Peluk Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Peluk 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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer gold mining has taken place in at least two locations on Peluk Creek. Near the head of the creek, at a surface elevation of about 100 feet in the Nome C-1 quadrangle, mining produced about 100 ounces of coarse, rough, and iron-stained gold from 4 feet of angular gravel pay on a 4-foot-thick clay false bedrock (Collier and others, 1908). Schist bedrock was 72 to 82 feet deep in this area (30 feet above sea level), and the lower 40 feet of the gravel contained 0.1 to 0.4 ounce of gold per cubic yard. Elsewhere on Peluk Creek, non-float placer mining took place as recently as 1940 (Smith, 1942). This mining may have been lower on the creek where it reworks coastal plain deposits such as Second Beach (NM256).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer gold tailings are locally present on Peluk Creek.
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): Smith, P.S., 1942, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1940: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 933-A, p. 1-102.
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 mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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