The Arctic Creek (lower) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Arctic Creek (lower) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Arctic Creek (lower)
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 (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A bucket line dredge operated on the lower part of Arctic Creek from 1914 until at least 1922 (Eakin, 1915 [B 622-I, p. 366-373]); Harrington, 1921; Brooks, 1922; Brooks and Capps, 1924.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = From 1914 to at least 1922, an alluvial placer gold deposit was mined along lower Arctic Creek by a floating bucket line dredge over at least a half mile, starting about 1 mile above its mouth. The placer in lower Arctic Creek appears to have gold sources other than those that supplied gold to the upper part of Arctic Creek (NM153). These sources include Bluff Creek (NM154) and the wall rocks of a discordant quartz-ankerite vein exposed in the bluffs opposite the mouth of Bluff Creek (NM157). The lower part of a south-flowing tributary to Arctic Creek about a half mile below Bluff Creek has also been placer mined and is included here. Arctic Creek is subparallel to the projection of a strong north-northeast fault mapped by Bundtzen and others (1994) as the Aurora fault. This fault is the control of vein mineralization (NM157). Strata along Arctic Creek near Bluff Creek are, in part, pyritic graphitic quartz schist, but most of the country rock is calcareous mica schist.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H. and Capps, S.R., 1924, Mineral industry in Alaska, 1922: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 755, p. 1-56.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Eakin, H.M., 1915, Placer mining in Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 622-I, p. 366-373.
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): Brooks, A.H., 1922, The Alaska mining industry in 1920: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722-A, p. 1-74.
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