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Bonanza Creek

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. 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 10308671
Record type Site
Current site name Bonanza Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.01961, 64.8799 (WGS84)
Relative position Bonanza Creek is a west tributary to Jasper Creek, which flows north to Salmon Lake near the east-central boundary of the Nome D-1 quadrangle. This occurrence is on the lower part of Bonanza Creek between about 500 and 950 feet elevation. The site is plotted at an elevation of 700 feet, the approximate midpoint of the auriferous placer shown by Smith (1909, plate X).

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) -165.01961, 64.8799
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Smith (1909, plate X) showed this part of Bonaza Creek to be an auriferous placer deposit, but subsequent reports have not mentioned it.
  • Age = Quaternary.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kougarok

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The occurrence of placer gold on Bonaza Creek is only known from Smith's early report on the Iron Creek region (1909, plate X).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Smith, P.S., 1909, The Iron Creek region, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, Report on progress of investigations in 1908: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379, p. 302-354.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Smith, 1909

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (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

Beyond USGS

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

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