The Silver Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Silver Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver 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
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The lower 1,500 feet of Silver Creek has been placer mined by small-scale mechanical methods; this mining probably occurred in the 1930's and 1940's. The creek flows across interlayered marble, mica schist, and probably some metabasite for about a mile above its confluence with Steep Creek. The uppermost 2,000 feet of the drainage (above the mined section) is in massive marble (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]; Bundtzen and others, 1994). Proximal sources for the placer gold may exist in the Silver Creek drainage. Soils developed on the basal contact of the massive marble in upper Silver Creek are highly anomalous in gold and arsenic (see NM096). In the summer of 1995, Kennecott Exploration Company mapped the Silver Creek drainage and excavated more than 1,000 feet of trenches east and west of Silver Creek in a search for the source of the arsenic and gold anomaly in soils. The source was not clearly identified, although gold-bearing hematitic zones, possibly overlying veins, were found west of Silver Creek. It is also possible that the McDuffee vein structure (NM092) exposed in Steep Creek extends southwesterly into the Silver Creek area.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Small-scale mechanical mining of placer gold probably took place in 1930's and 1940's. The area has been explored in the 1990s for lode gold deposits.
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): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
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