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Thompson Creek

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Tungsten
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308929
MRDS ID A012880
Record type Site
Current site name Thompson Creek
Related records 10257668, 10002033

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.21422, 64.9465 (WGS84)
Relative position Thompson Creek is a west tributary to Grand Central River. The mouth of Thompson Creek is 5.5 miles southeast of Mount Osborn. This is locality 82 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]).

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)

Imuruk Basin(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
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.21422, 64.9465
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Hummel (1961) reported scheelite in heavy mineral concentrate from Thompson Creek. Stream sediments from this creek contained as much as 150 ppm copper, 600 ppm zinc, 12 ppm molybdenum, and 50 ppm bismuth (Hummel and Chapman, 1960). Both the north and south contacts of the Thompson Creek orthogneiss (Hummel, 1962 [MF 242]; Till, 1980) are in this drainage, and a tactite occurrence with scheelite (NM035) is just to the north of this drainage.
  • Age = Holocene.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface sampling of sediments is all that has taken place here.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hummel, C.L., and Chapman, R.M., 1960, Geologic and economic significance of some geochemical results obtained from stream sediment samples near Nome, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 400-B, p. B30-33.

  • Deposit

    Hummel, C.L., 1961, Regionally metamorphosed metalliferous contact-metasomatic deposits near Nome, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 424-D, p. D198-D199.

  • Deposit

    Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.

  • Deposit

    Till, A.B., 1980, Crystalline rocks of the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: University of Washington, Seattle, M.Sc. thesis, 97 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Hummel, 1961

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer scheelite occurrence.

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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