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Eureka Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001879
MRDS ID A012702
Record type Site
Current site name Eureka Creek
Related records 10136153

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.70339, 65.60933 (WGS84)
Relative position Eureka Creek is a small north tributary of North Fork (Kougarok River). It is the first north tributary upstream from the mouth of North Fork on Kougarok river. The mouth of Eureka Creek is 500 feet east of the Nome-Taylor road and 2,000 feet northeast of the roads crossing of North Fork. Placer mine workings are shown by Sainsbury and others (1969) to start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west tributary to Eureka Creek. This is locality 34 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Site location context

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Alaska(state)

United States(country)

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USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben C-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

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Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.70339, 65.60933
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Early reports (Collier and others, 1908) reported mining about one mile upstream from the mouth that recovered fine gold from alluvial gravel containing schist and vein quartz fragments. Placer mine workings are shown by Sainsbury and others (1969) to start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west triburtary to Eureka Creek. Much bedrock is covered by tundra in the area but the nearest exposures are Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kougarok

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface open-cut placer mine workings start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west tributary to Eureka Creek.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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