The Arctic Creek (upper) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Arctic Creek (upper) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Arctic Creek (upper)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Tungsten
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: Scheelite
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Upper Arctic Creek was mined by hand methods for about 1 mile downstream from the Nome-Teller road and probably by mechanical methods for a half-mile segment above the mouth of Bluff Creek (NM154). Abundant granitic boulders have been stacked on the north side of the placer pit just below the Nome-Teller road, suggesting the possibility that some gold was derived by reworking glacial deposits. However, the unnamed northern tributary to Arctic Creek, above the Nome-Teller road, contains stream sediments that are strongly anomalous in lead and tungsten, suggesting local bedrock mineralization. A pan concentrate collected by Kennecott Exploration Company from this north tributary contained 830 ppm lead and 80 ppm tungsten. A pan concentrate from Arctic Creek just above Bluff Creek contained greater than 10,000 ppb gold. A bedrock sample of pyritic graphitic quartz schist collected about 500 feet above the confluence of Bluff Creek contained 15 ppb gold, 1,340 ppm arsenic, and 41 ppm antimony.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Mostly shovel-in type workings; probably most date from before 1906 (Moffit, 1906, p. 136).
References
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1906, Gold mining on Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Report on progress of investigations of mineral resources in Alaska in 1905: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 284, p. 132-144.
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): 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.
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