Nome River

The Nome River is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Nome River

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nome

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale placer mining by rocker or pan almost certainly occurred in the early years of the 20th century on river bar deposits of Nome River. Parts of the Nome River flood plain near the mouths of auriferous tributaries were mined mechanically in later years. These flood-plain operations include those near the mouths of Sparkle and Dexter Creeks and below the mouth of Nil Desperandum Gulch on the right limit (west side) of Nome River. On the basis of the distribution of patented placer claims, Nome River was explored systematically and covered by patented claims from just above Sparkle Creek to about McDonald Creek, which is the approximate location of the so-called 'Third-Beach' deposits.

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Unknown, but the floodplain between Sparkle and McDonald Creeks is a gold resource.

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production from Nome River may have been reported with that of its gold-bearing tributaries, such as Dexter Creek.

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Nome River floodplain is gold-bearing downstream from its confluence with Buffalo Creek (Nome D-1 quadrangle) to the mouth of Nome Creek (Nome B-1 quadrangle) (Collier and others,1908, plate X). Almost certainly some placer gold was mined from the Nome River with rockers and pans on transient gold deposits on river bars in the early days of the district. In later years, large-scale mechanical placer mining occurred in Nome River flood plain at the mouth of Sparkle Creek, also at the mouth of Dexter Creek (both on the Nome C-1 quadrangle) (Bundtzen and others, 1994, sheet 1). .Gold-bearing tributaries to upper Nome River on the D-1 quadrangle include Boer Creek (NM049), Divide Creek (NM057), Dorothy Creek (NM057), Christian Creek (NM073), and Rocky Mountain Creek (NM082). On the C-1 quadrangle, gold-bearing tributaries include Basin (NM301), Sparkle (NM302), Dexter (NM303), Buster (NM304), and Osborn Creeks (NM305).

References

Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

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.

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