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Unnamed (lode in Rocky Mountain Creek)

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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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
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307954
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (lode in Rocky Mountain Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.19099, 64.77629 (WGS84)
Relative position The occurrence is in Rocky Mountain Creek about 0.2 mile below the stibnite vein called the Lindfors prospect (NM080); it is at an elevation of about 550 feet. The location is shown on figure 4 of Coats (1944). The location is accurate within about 500 feet.

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
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.19099, 64.77629
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Rocky Mountain Creek has been mined for gold, and concentrates contain scheelite (NM082). The creek was one of six creeks on the Seward Peninsula that have been identified as possibly containing important amounts of scheelite (Coats, 1944, p. 6). This prospect is on a linear feature mapped from aerial photographs by Hummel (1962 [MF 248]). The linear appears to closely coincide with the scheelite-bearing vein and scheelite-bearing float that was traced from Rocky Mountain Creek southerly for 4,000 feet to Nelson Gulch (Coats, 1944, figure 4). Bedrock in this area is a calcareous schist that gradationally overlies quartzite and schist (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Possibly some placer production of scheelite from Rocky Mountain Creek.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Explored by placer mining on Rocky Mountain Creek.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Coats, 1944

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Scheelite-bearing quartz-plagioclase veins in schist.

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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