The Tripple Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Tripple Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tripple Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Antimony
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: 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: Gold
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Heiner and Porter, 1972
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mine tailings are present along Tripple Creek between surface elevations of 50 and 150 feet. The mine was active through 1997 (Swainbank and others, 1997). In addition to placer gold, construction products have also been produced during the recent operations. The mine was assumed to be active in 2000.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Patented claims reported.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Tripple Creek heads in bedrock on the southeast side of Newton Peak, but it mostly flows across older parts of the Nome coastal plain and the Nome River flood plain. The part of the creek on the Nome coastal plain, between surface elevations of 50 and 150 feet, has been placer mined for gold. Records of the State and Territory of Alaska show three patented claims on Tripple Creek: Kardex site Kx 167 patented to U.S. Smelting and Refining Company; Kardex site Kx 258, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 1346 (Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982; Heiner and Porter, 1972); Kardex site Kx 305, a bedrock claim in upper Tripple Creek, reportedly located for antimony (Heiner and Porter, 1972). Bedrock including marble and light-colored, possibly metavolcanic schist is exposed in the mine. The mine was active at least through 1997 (Swainbank and others, 1997) and is assumed still to be active in 2000.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
References
Reference (Deposit): Swainbank, R.C., Bundtzen, T. K., Clough A.H., and Henning, M.W., 1997, Alaska's mineral industry 1996: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 51, 68 p.
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): Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982, Mining claim location maps -- Nome quadrangle: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 8 p., 3 sheets, scales 1:63,360 and 1:250,000.
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