The Quartz Creek (lower) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Quartz Creek (lower) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Quartz Creek (lower)
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 (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Claim activity on Quartz Creek was reported in 1900 (Heiner and Porter, 1972, Kardex site Kx 52-90). Collier and others (1908) reported mining in 1903. Activity on the claims was reported as recently as 1953 (Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Collier and others (1908, p. 215) reported sluicing for gold at this locality in 1903; information on the placer was not reported, but they noted that two men were making little more than wages in 1903'. Bedrock in this area is mainly chloritic schist (Sainsbury and others, 1972 [OFR 72-322]); quartz veinlets were reported to be common (Collier and others, 1908).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Ewing, Rodney, and Marsh, W.R., 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nome C-3 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-322, 9 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Heiner, L.E., and Porter, Eve, 1972, Alaska Mineral Properties, volume 2: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 24, 669 p.
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.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982, Mining claim location maps -- Nome quadrangle: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 8 p., 3 sheets, scales 1:63,360 and 1:250,000.
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