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Lindblom Creek

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. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308951
MRDS ID A012896
Record type Site
Current site name Lindblom Creek
Related records 10112248, 10002047

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.44608, 64.62148 (WGS84)
Relative position This alluvial placer gold mine is on Lindblom Creek, an east tributary to Snake River. The placer is upstream of the Snake River road crossing of Lindblom Creek and 1.5 miles south-southwest of Mount Byrnteson. This is locality 97 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]). The location is in the east-central part of section 15, T. 10 S., R. 34 W., Kateel River Meridian, and is accurate to about 500 feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nome C-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)

Federal lands

Sitnasuak Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • Sulfidization of bedrock schist.

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) -165.44608, 64.62148
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Small amounts of placer gold and scheelite are present on Lindblom Creek. Some placer gold was produced from 4- to 5-foot-thick gravels in the narrow, 25-foot-wide part of the upper creek (Collier and others, 1908; Moffit, 1913). Some scheelite-bearing quartz veins are also reported in the drainage (Coats, 1944; Anderson, 1947; Thorne and others, 1948). Lower Lindblom Creek drains an area of sulfidized schist marked by an arsenic soil anomaly defined as greater than 400 ppm arsenic. A gold-in-soil anomaly, contained within the arsenic anomaly, defined as greater than 80 ppb gold, extends for about 2000 feet along and immediately north of Lindblom Creek (BHP Minerals, written communication, 1990; C. C. Hawley, written communication for Kennecott Exploration Company, 1993). The arsenic anomaly projects toward the extensive arsenic anomaly at the Rock Creek deposit (NM207) but is separated from it by a possibly barren zone along the post-mineral Brynteson fault, the unnamed, north-striking fault mapped by Hummel (1962 [MF 247]), about one-half mile west of Mount Brynteson. The country rocks are mainly chloritic mica schist of Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Sainsbury, Hummel, and Hudson, 1972 [OFR 72-326]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994; Bundtzen and others, 1994).
  • 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 Nome

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Some small-scale surface placer mine workings are present.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Moffit, 1913

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial placer gold deposit probably in part developed as a residual placer on sulfidized (arsenopyrite) schist. (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-JUL-00 Hawley, C.C. and Hudson, Travis L. Hawley Resource Group

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