Cleveland Creek

The Cleveland Creek is a iron mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Cleveland Creek

Commodity

Primary: Iron
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead

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

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Dolomitization.

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Hematite
Ore: Goethite
Gangue: Dolomite

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Herreid, 1970

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = An iron oxide occurrence lies on the south side of hill 738 in the headwaters of Cleveland Creek in or adjacent to the massive marble unit of Bundtzen and others (1994) Herreid (1970, p. 18) called this the Cleveland Creek gossan and found anomalous amounts of lead and zinc, as at the nearby Cub Bear prospect (NM133) and some other iron oxide prospects of the Sinuk River area. The Cleveland Creek occurrence may be in a structural and stratigraphic setting similar to those at the Quarry (NM135) and Galena (NM130) prospects.

Comment (Geology): Age = Post mid-Cretaceous, the age of regional metamophism of the country rocks.

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface exposures in natural outcrop and rubble crop; some geochemical sampling by Herried (1970).

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Iron oxide vein and replacement of marble and schist.

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): 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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