The Goldbottom Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Goldbottom Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Goldbottom Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tungsten
Location
State: Alaska
District: Council
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
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Ilmenite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Placer mining started early and about 485 ounces of gold ($10,000) were produced in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901). Small dredges operated from 1909 to at least 1911. A heavy-mineral concentrate from near the mouth of Warm Creek (SO054) contained gold, hematite, ilmenite, garnet, and scheelite. Gravels were 5 to 6 feet thick and the gold, recovered from the lower 2 feet of gravel and 1 foot of bedrock, was coarse, well-rounded and mostly bright (Collier and ohters, 1908). Bedrock schist, marble, and some greenstone contains numerous pyrite-bearing quartz veins and lenses. Most of the drainage is probably underlain by a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mining started early and about 485 ounces of gold ($10,000) were produced in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901). Small dredges operated from 1909 to at least 1911.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Production): Production Notes = About 485 ounces of gold ($10,000) were produced in 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901).
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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