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Bulk Gold (East)

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Antimony, Arsenic
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307937
Record type Site
Current site name Bulk Gold (East)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.2662, 64.79599 (WGS84)
Relative position The east part of the Bulk Gold prospect of Altar Resources comprises land at the head of Dorothy Creek and east of the ridge at the head of Dahl Creek, a tributary to Los Creek, but not shown on the 1972 edition of the USGS topographic map. The east block includes sections 13 and 24, T. 8 S., R. 33 W., and part of section 18 in T. 8 S., R. 32 W., Kateel River Meridian. The location is on a north-trending ridge overlooking the head of Dorothy Creek. It approximately coincides with pits where bedrock contains anomalous arsenic and gold (David Lajack, written communication, 1999). The location of the pits is accurate to within about 500 feet of the coordinates.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nome D-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)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scorodite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.2662, 64.79599
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The Bulk Gold prospect was identified from stream sediment sampling and soil samples collected between 1994 and 1998 (Daniel Lajack, written communication, 1999). Prospect pits are located just south of the saddle on the south side of hill 1137, immediately north of the center of section 13, T. 8 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian. Bedrock samples collected from the prospect pits contained from 0.027 to 0.035 ounce of gold per ton and from 7,490 ppm to more than 1 percent arsenic. The arsenic is present as arsenopyrite or its oxidation product, scorodite. Another sample collected about due west of the pits in upper Dorothy Creek contained 0.011 ounce of gold per ton and 1.7 percent arsenic. Antimony values were anomalous in these samples. Controls of mineralization are unknown. The east part of the Bulk Gold prospect is underlain mostly by massive marble and feldspathic epidote-bearing schist that is probably in thrust contact with the underlying marble (Bundtzen and others, 1994). The epidote-bearing schist may be part of a regional mafic metavolcanic assemblage that has an Ordovician protolith (Till and Dumoulin, 1994). The prospect pit area is shown by Bundtzen and others (1994) as entirely underlain by marble. Hummel (1962 [MF 248]) mapped several small granitic orthogneiss sills in this area. The metamorphic rocks in this area are part of the Nome Group derived from Proterzoic to early Paleozoic protoliths (Till and Dumoulin, 1994). The Nome Group underwent regional blueschist facies metamorphism in the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous (Sainsbury, Coleman, and Kachadoorian, 1970; Forbes and others, 1984; Thurston, 1985; Armstrong and others, 1986; Hannula and McWilliams, 1995). The blueschist facies rocks were recrystallized to greenschist facies or higher metamorphic grades in conjunction with regional extension, crustal melting, and magmatism in the mid-Cretaceous (Hudson and Arth, 1983; Miller and Hudson, 1991; Miller and others, 1992; Dumitru and others, 1995; Hannula and others, 1995; Hudson, 1994; Amato and others, 1994; Amato and Wright, 1997, 1998). Lode gold mineralization on Seward Peninsula is mostly related to the higher temperature metamorphism in the mid-Cretaceous (Apodoca, 1994; Ford, 1993 [thesis]; Ford and Snee, 1996; Goldfarb and others, 1997).
  • Age = Mid-Cretaceous; mineralization could be similar in age to many lode gold deposits of Seward Peninsula.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The only development is hand-dug prospect pits excavated in the period 1994-98, when the area was explored by Teck Exploration Company and Altar Resources.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = This report

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Possibly disseminated and stratabound in metamorphic rocks, or in low sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-OCT-99 Hawley, C.C. and Hudson, Travis L. Hawley Resource Group

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