The Center Creek Beach is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Center Creek Beach MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Center Creek Beach
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: 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: Pyrite
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Ilmenite
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Gangue: Garnet
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Pliocene or Pleistocene.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Metcalfe and Tuck, 1942
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The deposit was last mined by an open-pit operation.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Marine gold placer deposit; abraded beachline deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Center Creek Beach deposit is a rather diffuse, east-west aligned, marine concentration of placer gold about half way from the mouth of Center Creek to Intermediate Beach. The deposit extends along the coastal plain between Little Creek and Peluk Creek (Metcalfe and Tuck, 1942, p. 36). The deposit is developed on schist bedrock, and it is at elevations of -10 to +10 feet relative to sea level. It probably is an eroded beachline lowered by abrasion of the marine platform. The part of the deposit immediately east of the north-south runway at Nome airport was dredged. The deposit was subsequently developed in 1995-98 by an open-cut operations. It was mined during the winter, and the gravel was washed in the summer. Bedrock exposed in the pit is micaceous schist that locally contains some quartz-ankerite-albite veins.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active?
References
Reference (Deposit): Metcalfe, J.B., and Tuck, Ralph, 1942, Placer gold deposits of the Nome district, Alaska: Report for U.S. Smelting, Refining, and Mining Co., 175 p.
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