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Jackpot

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 10308666
Record type Site
Current site name Jackpot

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.367, 64.79429 (WGS84)
Relative position The Jackpot prospect is in the eastern headwaters of Boulder Creek, a south tributary to Stewart River. It is in section 16, T. 8 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian. Alaska State mining claims cover all but the NW1/4NW1/4 of section 16; Jack Gulch is in the southwest quarter of the section. The location is approximate, taken as the center of section 16.

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.367, 64.79429
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The Jackpot claims were located by following up anomalous concentrations of gold, arsenic, and other metals in stream sediments (Daniel Lajack, written communication, 1999). The Jackpot claim block is bisected by a strong fault that strikes northeast; it appears to be a splay of the Penny River fault, an important regional structure that is locally mineralized (Bundtzen and others, 1994). On the Jackpot claims, rocks north of the fault are mainly massive marble, but include a possible layered rhyolitic or granitic unit. Rocks on the south side of the fault are feldspathic, epidote-bearing schist that is probably part of, or transitional into a mafic metavolcanic assemblage derived from Ordovician protoliths (Till and Dumoulin, 1994).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface observation and possibly some sampling has been done here.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = This report

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = 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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