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Second Beach (east of Penny River)

Past Producer 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. 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 10307982
Record type Site
Current site name Second Beach (east of Penny River)
Alternate or previous names Jess Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.67668, 64.63588 (WGS84)
Relative position This site is a linear beach placer about 3 miles long that extends east from the mouth of Penny River. It is, in part, known as Jess Creek (Collier and others, 1908). The location is the approximate mid-point of the placer; it is about a third of a mile north of the present beach. These are localities 134 and 135 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nome C-2(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)

Federal lands

Sitnasuak Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.67668, 64.63588
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A gold deposit at Jess Creek (not named on current U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps), which enters Norton Sound east of the mouth of Penny River, was correlated with Second Beach deposits (Collier and others, 1908, figure 9; Moffit, 1907, p. 134-144). This appears to part of the 3 miles of Second Beach placer deposits mapped by Sainsbury and others (1972 [OFR 72-321]) in this area. Second Beach deposits are at an elevation of about 35 feet above the modern beach and consist of quartz sand with drift wood, fragments of walrus tusks, and marine shells. Garnet sand was relatively abundant in pay sections that generally were developed on unconsolidated deposits. Second Beach deposits approximately mark the landward limit of the Pelukian marine transgression mapped by Bundtzen and others (1994).
  • Age = Late Pleistocene.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The Jess Creek site was known at least by 1905 and was developed for mining before 1908 (Collier and others, 1908); State files show various claim groups along Second Beach at and east of Penny River (Heiner and Porter, 1972; Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit, 1907

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Auriferous beach placer.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-MAR-00 Hawley, C.C. and Hudson, Travis L. Hawley Resource Group

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