Quartz Creek (Stewart River)

The Quartz Creek (Stewart River) is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Quartz Creek (Stewart River)

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: Occurrence
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

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Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Quartz Creek forms the approximate west boundary of the Divide prospect (NM058). The drainage heads into a divide marked by gold-quartz veins that almostly certainly fed both Boer Creek to the north and Quartz Creek to the south, although Quartz Creek has not, apparently, been identified as gold-bearing. The ancestral geomorphic relations in this area are uncertain, and Quartz Creek many have once flowed to the Nome River drainage and been headwaters to Divide Creek (NM057). Quartz Creek rises along a contact that separates relatively graphitic and less graphitic metasedimentary rocks (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]).

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

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Quartz Creek at the head of Stewart River may not have been explored for its placer potential.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

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