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Skookum 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 10101039
MRDS ID A016076
Record type Site
Current site name Skookum Creek
Related records 10160799

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -166.25141, 65.09622 (WGS84)
Relative position Skookum Creek is a south tributary to the Right Fork Bluestone River, in the central Teller A-3 quadrangle. The confluence of this short, 1.75 long, north-flowing stream with the North Fork Bluestone River is at about 245 feet surface elevation. Cobb and Sainsbury (1972) did not show this as a separate locality but Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations to be on the lower 0.4 miles of the main drainage (between surface elevations of about 245 and 375 feet) and continuing downstream along the main drainage of the North Fork Bluestone River for another 0.4 miles (between surface elevations of about 240 and 245 feet). Cobb (1975) summarized references possibly relevant to Skookum Creek under the name 'Bluestone R., Right Fork'.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller A-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Teller 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) -166.25141, 65.09622
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock in the lower part of Skookum Creek is a metapelitic schist assemblage (Sainsbury, 1972). This assemblage may be in high-angle fault contact with chlorite schist and related rocks that make up bedrock in the upper part of the drainage. Both of these assemblages have local metamorphosed mafic intrusive bodies and both are of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations to be on the lower 0.4 miles of the main drainage (between surface elevations of about 245 and 375 feet) and continuing downstream along the main drainage of the North Fork Bluestone River for another 0.4 miles (between surface elevations of about 240 and 245 feet). Gold is reported to be present on benches as well as on the main drainage of Right Fork Bluestone River (Cobb, 1975). The placer deposits here have not been described. Sainsbury and others (1969) report anomalous mercury contents in stream sediments of North Fork Bluestone River upstream of the confluence with Skookum Creek.
  • 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 Port Clarence

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not known

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations to be on the lower 0.4 miles of the main drainage (between surface elevations of about 245 and 375 feet) and continuing downstream along the main drainage of the North Fork Bluestone River for another 0.4 miles (between surface elevations of about 240 and 245 feet). These were all probably non-float operations.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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