Wheel Creek

The Wheel Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Wheel Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Barium-Barite

Location

State: Alaska
District: Nome

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

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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

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Alterations

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Rocks

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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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