The Sparkle Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Sparkle Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sparkle Creek
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: Past 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 (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Sparkle Creek appears to be an artificial drainage below two high-level ditches (see Nome C-1 quadrangle, sections 3, 10, 11, 13, 14). Bundtzen and others (1994) mapped placer tailings on the floodplain of the Nome River opposite Sparkle Creek, suggesting the possibility that Sparkle Creek was the cut that brought hydraulic water to the floodplain. However Kardex locations (Kardex sites Kx 164 and 316a, Heiner and Porter, 1972; Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982) are on Sparkle Creek. The name Sparkle Creek was reported as a prospector's name in 1900 (Orth, 1967).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Bundtzen and others, 1994
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A placer mine related to Sparkle Creek apparently was on the floodplain of Nome River opposite Sparkle Creek. Substantial tailings are on the floodplain at this site.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Orth, D.J., 1967, Dictionary of Alaska place names: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 567, 1,084 p. (Reprinted in 1971 with minor revisions.)
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): 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.
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.
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