Dome Creek

The Dome Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Dome Creek

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Kougarok

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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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

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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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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