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Jump 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 10002549
MRDS ID A013492
Record type Site
Current site name Jump Creek
Related records 10112366

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.98339, 65.88939 (WGS84)
Relative position The Jump Creek placer mines on lower Jump Creek approximately one mile upstream from its confluence with Candle Creek. Areas mined on Jump Creek extend west onto the Bendeleben D-1 quadrangle. The map site is in section 26, T. 6 N., R. 16 W., of the Kateel River Meridian. Cobb, 1972 (MF-389), location 18.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candle D-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Candle N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Candle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(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) -161.98339, 65.88939
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Jump Creek was the placer gold discovery site which opened up exploration in the Candle Creek drainage. Both bench and stream placer deposits are found on on the creek. The creek gravels range from 12 to 18 feet thick and are covered by 10 to 20 feet of tundra. Gravels in bench deposits are 4 to 10 feet thick and are overlain by 5 to 10 feet of tundra. All of the ground is permanently frozen. Bedrock is early Paleozoic quartz-mica schist (Gault and others, 1953). See Candle Creek (ARDF number BN074, Hudson, 1999) and Jump Creek (ARDF number BN070, Hudson, 1999) in the Bendeleben quadrangle for additional information.
  • 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 Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Gold has been mined fairly continuously from the early 1900's through 1945 by drifting, hydraulicking and dredging. Keewalik Mining operated a dredge near the mouth of the creek in the early 1930's. Small-scale mining and prospecting has been done from the 1950's through the 1980's.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Harrington, 1919; Gault and others, 1953

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Deposit Other Comments = Also see Candle Creek (ARDF number BN074, Hudson, 1999) and Jump Creek (ARDF number BN070, Hudson, 1999) in the Bendeleben quadrangle.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-JAN-00 Williams, Anita U.S. Geological Survey

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