Bluff Creek

The Bluff Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Bluff Creek

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: Prospect
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 = This is an area of patented mining claims, possibly the patented five claims of G. Schofield reported by Heiner and Porter (1972, Kardex site Kx 52-48).

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Lower Bluff Creek and a small north tributary are covered by patented mining claims, although there does not appear to have been any significant placer mining. Bedrock in lower Bluff Creek is mineralized pyritic graphitic quartz schist; a bedrock sample collected on Arctic Creek (NM153) about 500 feet above the confluence of Bluff Creek contained 15 ppb gold, 1,340 ppm arsenic, and 41 ppm antimony. Bedrock in the general area of Bluff Creek was mapped as pelitic micaceous graphitic schist (Sainsbury and others, 1972 [OFR 72-321]; Bundtzen and others, 1994).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive

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): 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): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Ewing, Rodney, and Marsh, W.R., 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nome C-2 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-321, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

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