| Deposit ID | 10308746 |
|---|---|
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Quartz Creek |
| Alternate or previous names | Sunset Creek, Slate Creek |
| Geographic coordinates: | -166.26034, 65.03228 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | This Quartz Creek is a short, 1 mile long south tributary to upper Gold Run in the south-central Teller A-3 quadrangle; the confluence is at about 480 feet surface elevation. Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer operations to be the lower 0.25 miles of Quartz Creek and contiguous 0.25 miles of Gold Run downstream from the mouth of Quartz Creek. This is locality 80 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972) who note only one prior reference to this location (Collier and others, 1908, p. 277). It was not identified as a separate locality by Cobb (1975). |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Nome(Census area)
Alaska(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Teller A-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)
Teller SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Teller C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)
Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)
Northwest(hydrologic subregion)
Alaska(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Teller Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)
ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)
NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| United States | Alaska |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Gold | Ore |
| Model code | 119 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 39a |
| Deposit model name | Placer Au-PGE |
| Mark3 model number | 54 |
| (1) | -166.26034, 65.03228 |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| District name | Port Clarence |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | TE097 |
Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Model Name = Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 10-MAY-1998 | Travis L. Hudson | Applied Geology |
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