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Gold Run

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten
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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 10308791
MRDS ID D002561
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Run
Related records 10009520

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -162.07235, 65.54738 (WGS84)
Relative position Gold Run Creek is a northeast-flowing stream with headwaters against the northeast side of the Kiwalik Mountain upland. This location is approximately located on upper Gold Run Creek, probably within one mile. It is locality 61 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben C-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Kyanite Gangue

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) -162.07235, 65.54738
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Placer gold was discovered on Gold Run Creek in 1908 and mining or exploration activities were reported for many years up to WW II (Cobb, 1975, OFR 75-429). Early mining was in ground 6 to 12 feet deep in the upper creek (Henshaw, 1910). Scheelite, wolframite, and kyanite were reported to be present in placer concentrates and kyanite was exposed in a placer cut (Anderson, 1947). Bedrock along the north and east side of Kiwalik Mountain is part of Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that includes metamophosed felsic dikes or sills thought to be related to the Devonian Kiwalik Mountain gneiss (Till and others, 1986). The metasedimentary assemblage includes marble, metapelitic rocks, and in some areas quartz-mica rocks that may be metatuffs or exhalites. Felsic metavolcanic rocks are present in this assemblage at the HOM (BN077) and Big Bar (BN083) prospects. Some skarn-like rocks are also present locally on this side of Kiwalik Mountain. The Lower Paleozoic assemblage is inferred to lay unconformably on polydeformed metapelitic schist of Monument Mountain that may be Precambrian in age.
  • 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 Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface open-cut placer workings are present locally on this creek.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1975 (OFR 75-429)

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 15-MAR-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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