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Harris Creek

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
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  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307285
Record type Site
Current site name Harris Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.58339, 65.62933 (WGS84)
Relative position Harris Creek is the principal north tributary to the North Fork of Kougarok River. The mouth of Harris Creek is about 3.7 miles upstream from the Nome-Taylor road crossing of North Fork. Sainsbury and others (1969) show placer mine workings on the main channel of Harris Creek starting at the mouth and continuring upstream for 4.3 miles. This is locality 4 of Gamble (1988). This occurrence has not been confirmed and it is very approximately located; probably within a distance of 2 miles.

Site location context

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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
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.58339, 65.62933
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Galena-bearing veins in bedrock of Harris Creek reportedly were discovered during early placer mining (Berg and Cobb, 1967, p. 118). Sainsbury and others (1969) show placer mine workings on the main channel of Harris Creek starting at the mouth and continuing upstream for 4.3 miles. The lower two miles of the stream channel crosses Paleozoic marble bedrock and the upper two miles or more crosses Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986).
  • Age = Unknown; if this occurrence is epigenetic, then it may be Cretaceous in age, the age of most epigenetic mineral deposits on Seward Peninsula.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

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 on the main channel of Harris Creek starting at the mouth and continuing upstream for 4.3 miles. A dredge was operated on at least parts of this drainage.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Berg and Cobb, 1967

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Galena-bearing veins in metamorphic rocks

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-99 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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