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Quartz Creek (Stewart River)

Occurrence 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 10307953
Record type Site
Current site name Quartz Creek (Stewart River)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.3082, 64.83519 (WGS84)
Relative position The headwaters of Quartz Creek, a tributary of Stewart River, are across a low divide south from Boer Creek (NM049). Quartz Creek flows south and joins Thompson Creek to form the head of Stewart River. A low divide to the east of Quartz Creek separates the upper Stewart River drainage from Divide Creek (NM057) and upper Nome River. Quartz Creek is about 1.3 miles long.

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

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) -165.3082, 64.83519
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Quartz Creek forms the approximate west boundary of the Divide prospect (NM058). The drainage heads into a divide marked by gold-quartz veins that almostly certainly fed both Boer Creek to the north and Quartz Creek to the south, although Quartz Creek has not, apparently, been identified as gold-bearing. The ancestral geomorphic relations in this area are uncertain, and Quartz Creek many have once flowed to the Nome River drainage and been headwaters to Divide Creek (NM057). Quartz Creek rises along a contact that separates relatively graphitic and less graphitic metasedimentary rocks (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]).
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Quartz Creek at the head of Stewart River may not have been explored for its placer potential.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = This report

General comments

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

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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