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Windy 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001913
MRDS ID A012744
Record type Site
Current site name Windy Creek
Alternate or previous names Anderson Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.77837, 65.44626 (WGS84)
Relative position Windy Creek is a west tributary to Kougarok River. The mouth of Windy Creek is 2,000 feet west of the Nome-Taylor road at about mile 85.5. This is about 2.1 miles upstream from the Kougarok bridge. Anderson Gulch is a small north tributary to Windy Creek who's mouth is 2.5 miles upstream from Kougarok River. The lower part of Anderson Gulch and 1,500 feet of the adjacent Windy Creek valley have been placer mined for gold. This is locality 38 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Bendeleben SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.77837, 65.44626
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Gold was reported here as early as 1902 (Collier, 1902) and placer mining took place by 1906 (Collier and others, 1908). Mining was along the lower part of Anderson Gulch and a bench along the north side of the Windy Creek valley. Gold was present in 2 to 4 feet of gravel over bedrock; pay included 1 to 2 feet of bedrock. Bedrock in the area of upper Windy Creek and Anderson Gulch is a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that is regionally faulted against Ordovician mafic-metavolcanic rocks to the north and east of Anderson Gulch (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 operations including hydraulicking took place at least up to 1909 (Cobb, 1975).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Collier, A.J., 1902, A reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 2, 70 p.

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-417, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

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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