Banner Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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 10002067
MRDS ID A012920
Record type Site
Current site name Banner Creek
Related records 10258018

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.32022, 64.64762 (WGS84)
Relative position This alluvial placer gold mine is on Banner Creek, a west tributary to Nome River opposite Sparkle Creek (NM302). The mouth of Banner Creek is 1.1 miles south of the Nome-Taylor road crossing of Nome River. Placer mine workings are present along at least a half mile of the central part of Banner Creek, between surface elevations of 150 and 250 feet. The map location is at the approximate midpoint of the placer workings, south of the center of section 5, T. 10 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian. It is locality 113 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nome C-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Solomon NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nome(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nome(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sitnasuak Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

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) -165.32022, 64.64762

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Gold was discovered on Banner Creek by 1900 (Brooks and others, 1901), and some placer mining took place by 1905 (Moffit, 1913). Placer tailings from more recent mechanical mining are along about 1,000 feet of the creek on a north-side bench below the mouth of Slate Creek. Bedrock in the area is graphitic schist, probably of early Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Sainsbury, Hummel and Hudson, 1972 [OFR 72-326]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994). Bundtzen and others (1994) do not show bedrock along Banner Creek; their nearest mapped unit is the metaturbidite schist. Moffit (1913, p. 99) reported abundant marble (limestone) intercalated with schist in the canyon above the placer cut. Gold-bearing quartz veins also have been reported at the site (Moffit, 1913, p. 132).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Placer tailings, probably from dozer and sluice operations, are along about 1,000 feet of Banner Creek on a north-side bench below the mouth of Slate Creek.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit, 1913

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-JUL-00 Hawley, C.C. Hawley Resource Group
Reporter 10-JUL-00 Travis L. Hudson Hawley Resource Group

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Alaska resources

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