Coarse Gold 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 10307263
Record type Site
Current site name Coarse Gold Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.76239, 65.59132 (WGS84)
Relative position Coarse Gold Creek is a west tributary to Kougarok River. Its mouth is 2 miles west of the Nome-Taylor road measured from just north of where it crosses North Fork (Kougarok River). Sainsbury and others (1969) show placer mine workings to be present along 2,000 feet of the drainage starting 1,000 feet upstream of its mouth on Kougarok River. This is locality 33 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 C-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NW(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) -164.76239, 65.59132

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Little is reported concerning placer gold on central Coarse Gold Creek. Gold was reported and some mining took place somewhere on the creek by 1908 (Collier and others, 1908; Smith, 1909). Sainsbury and others (1969) show placer mine workings to be present along 2,000 feet of the drainage starting 1,000 feet upstream of its mouth on Kougarok River. Bedrock is not exposed in the area of these workings. The diorite in bedrock referred to in early reports (Collier and others, 1908) is probably metadiabase or metagabbro of the mafic metavolcanic assemblage of the region, considered to be Ordovician by Till and others (1986). As Sainsbury and others (1969) show some metagabbroic rocks in bedrock upstream where other placer mining took place on this creek (BN023), the early reports may be for upstream locations rather than for the area at the mouth (locality 33 of Cobb, 1972, MF 417).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kougarok

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Sainsbury and others (1969) show placer mine workings to be present along 2,000 feet of the drainage starting 1,000 feet upstream of the creek's mouth on Kougarok River.

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-99 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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