Nelson Creek

The Nelson Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Nelson Creek
Secondary: Nelson Gulch

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

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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

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Pyrite

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary; two or more cycles of placer development are probably present in the area.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Nelson Creek is only about 3,000 feet long but gravel benches are present, at least near the mouth (related to Old Glory Creek ?). A placer cut here revealed (top to bottom): 18 inches of muck, up to 12 inches of blue clay, 24 inches of red clay, up to 60 inches of peaty material, and and 24 to 36 inches of gravel on schist bedrock. Gold is rough, angular, and associated with considerable quartz; placer concentrates contain considerable pyrite, some garnet, and a little magnetite (Moffit, 1905). Mineralized bedrock is exposed in one bench cut (BN059; Herried, 1966).

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface, open-cut placer workings are present. These include some open cuts on a gravel bench near the mouth of the creek.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1905

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-417, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1905, The Fairhaven gold placers, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 247, 85 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.

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): Herried, G.H., 1965, Geology of the Omilak-Otter Creek area, Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geological Report 11, 12 p.

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