The Penny Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Penny Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Penny 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 (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary; the location and elevation (75 to 150 feet) of this area indicate that it was affected by Quaternary sea level fluctuations.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale mining took place episodically between 1900 and at least 1934. These operations probably included hand, hydraulic and open-cut dozer/sluice methods.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Mining on Penny Creek started as early as 1900; some gold was as coarse as an $18 (1 ounce) nugget (Brooks and others, 1901). The lower 8,000 feet of the creek, which is at least locally incised up to 20 feet, has been mined mostly by small scale operations. The elevation of this part of the creek is between 75 and 150 feet. There is some marble bedrock with an overlying clay layer and thin gravels, but most of the creek is underlain by schist (Smith, 1910). The creek crosses a subdued upland about 500 feet in elevation or less that early workers called the Solomon River terrace (Brooks and others, 1901). This topographic feature does not closely follow the Solomon River and may instead be related to Quaternary sea level fluctuations. Bedrock here is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 511; Till and others, 1986).
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): Smith, P.S., 1910, Geology and mineral resources of the Solomon and Casadepaga quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 433, 234 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Ewing, R., and Marsh, W.R., 1972, Reconnaissance geologic maps of the Solomon D-5 and C-5 quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 511, 12 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
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.
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.
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