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Christmas Creek

Prospect 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 10308019
Record type Site
Current site name Christmas Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -160.51991, 64.62299 (WGS84)
Relative position Christmas Creek is an approximately 10-mile-long, east tributary to the Ungalik River. The exact location of prospecting along Christmas Creek is not known; the coordinates are arbitrarily selected at the approximate midpoint of the creek. The location is accurate within 5 miles.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Norton Bay C-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Norton Bay N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Norton Bay C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Norton Bay(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

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) -160.51991, 64.62299
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The headwaters of Christmas Creek drain an area underlain by graywacke, shale, conglomerate, and grit of the Cretaceous Shaktolik Group (Cass, 1959). The lower portion of Christmas Creek is underlain by Cretaceous Ungalik conglomerate. The contact between the Shaktolik Group and Ungalik conglomerate was identified on aerial photographs (Cass, 1959). Placer claims were staked during the 1900's, but Smith and Eakin (1911) report no activity on those claims as of 1909. There is no further information about placer gold on Christmas Creek.
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Koyuk

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Placer claims were staked during the 1900's, but Smith and Eakin (1911) report no activity on those claims as of 1909. There is no further information about placer gold on Christmas Creek.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Smith and Eakin, 1911

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-AUG-01 Cameron, C.E. Northern Associates Inc.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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