The Unnamed (lode in Rocky Mountain Creek) is a tungsten mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (lode in Rocky Mountain Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (lode in Rocky Mountain Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Secondary: 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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Feldspar
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Explored by placer mining on Rocky Mountain Creek.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Rocky Mountain Creek has been mined for gold, and concentrates contain scheelite (NM082). The creek was one of six creeks on the Seward Peninsula that have been identified as possibly containing important amounts of scheelite (Coats, 1944, p. 6). This prospect is on a linear feature mapped from aerial photographs by Hummel (1962 [MF 248]). The linear appears to closely coincide with the scheelite-bearing vein and scheelite-bearing float that was traced from Rocky Mountain Creek southerly for 4,000 feet to Nelson Gulch (Coats, 1944, figure 4). Bedrock in this area is a calcareous schist that gradationally overlies quartzite and schist (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Possibly some placer production of scheelite from Rocky Mountain Creek.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Coats, 1944
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Scheelite-bearing quartz-plagioclase veins in schist.
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.
Reference (Deposit): Coats, R.R., 1944, Lode scheelite occurrences of the Nome area: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 17, 6 p.
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