The Dome Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Dome Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dome Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Kougarok
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 (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1909
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The entire 2.5 mile length of Dome Creek has been placer mined. The creek was worked by small-scale methods for several years after gold discovery about 1900 and a dredge worked a considerable amount of the creek in 1939 and 1940 (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 512; Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). Some very coarse gold has been recovered, at least one nugget was over 32 ounces, and heavy mineral concentrates contained magnetite, garnet, and ilmenite (Smith, 1909). Cinnabar is also reported to be present in Dome Creek (Sainsbury and others, 1972). Bedrock in the area is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The entire 2.5 mile length of Dome Creek has been placer mined. The creek was worked by small-scale methods for several years after gold discovery in about 1900 and a dredge worked a considerable amount of the creek in 1939 and 1940 (Sainsbury and others, 1972; Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181).
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Some of the gold from Dome Creek was very coarse; one nugget weighed over 32 ounces.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1909, Recent developments in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379-F, p. 267-301.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Ewing, R., and Richards, T., 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Solomon D-6 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 512, 17 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.
Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.
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