The Wheel Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Wheel Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Wheel Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Barium-Barite
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Very limited stream sediment sampling and panning has taken place here.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Wheel Creek appears too narrow and steep to contain a significant placer deposit, but the occurrence indicates the presence of lode deposits in the drainage.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold was panned on Wheel Creek in 1991 during the Kennecott Exploration Company evaluation of the area. Herreid (1970) also reported a barium geochemical anomaly on the creek. The creek apparently follows a steep east-striking fault that cuts through massive marble and graphitic quartzite (Bundtzen and others, 1994). The headwaters of Wheel Creek have the same geologic setting as the headwaters of Hungry Creek (NM149) and May Gulch (NM176), which are known to be gold-bearing.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Exploration): Status = 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): Herreid, G.H., 1970, Geology and geochemistry of the Sinuk area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geologic Report 36, 61 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:42,000.
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