The Warm Creek is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Warm Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Warm Creek
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tungsten
Location
State: Alaska
District: Council
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
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Ilmenite
Gangue: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Placer mining started in Warm Creek in 1900 but much of the mining was by dredging between 1911 and 1922 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). The specific location of the placer workings along the creek is not known but the dredging may have taken place on the lower part of the drainage. Early mining was on claims in the upper part of the creek.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold mining began on Warm Creek in 1900 and by 1907 perhaps $100,000 (5,000 ounces) had been produced (Collier and others, 1908). Most of the gold was rough and iron-stained, some was almost black, and a 2.8 ounce nugget was recovered. Heavy mineral concentrate contained hematite, ilmenite, garnet, rutile, scheelite, and magnetite. After panning to remove the free gold, this concentrate assayed 22.4 ounces of gold and 4.2 ounces of silver per ton (Collier and others, 1908). Schist, marble, and some greenstone bedrock in the area is cut by quartz veins and lenses. The gold is mostly on the foot of gravel above bedrock; gravels are up to 7 feet thick. The gravels are reported to be 6 to 9 feet thick near the mouth. Bedrock in the area is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
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): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
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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