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Newton Gulch

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. Host and associated rocks
  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 10002088
MRDS ID A012948
Record type Site
Current site name Newton Gulch
Related records 10111656

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.3266, 64.539 (WGS84)
Relative position This alluvial gold placer mine is on Newton Gulch, a south-flowing tributary to Dry Creek. The map location is about the midpoint of Newton Gulch, in the NW1/4 section 17, T. 11 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian. It is locality 127 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]). The location is accurate within 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

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.3266, 64.539
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Placer mining was under way on Newton Gulch by 1900 when about 500 ounces of gold were produced (Brooks and others, 1901). Considerable mining, including dredging from 1930 to 1932, took place on lower parts of the creek, where it enters the Nome coastal plain and crosses Third Beach (NM258) and Fourth Beach (NM259). At the edge of the coastal plain, pay was in the lower 2 to 8 feet of 6- to 27-foot-thick stream gravels 30 to 150 feet wide. Upstream, in the steeper parts of the gulch, the pay was on schist bedrock, but on the coastal plain, pay was on clay false bedrock about 10 feet below the surface (Collier and others, 1908). Near the mouth of Newton Gulch, some deposits contained very rich streaks that carried more than 0.7 ounce of gold per cubic yard. About 4,000 feet mile upstream of the mouth, pay ran about 0.1 ounce gold per cubic yard. Some hillside gravels were also placer mined near Newton Gulch. Work by U.S. Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company (Metcalfe and Tuck, 1942, p. 25, figure 4C) indicated that Newton Gulch was a bedrock tributary into the Third Beach sea.? Bedrock in Newton Gulch is mostly marble and schist, probably of early Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994; Bundtzen and others, 1994). The marble and schist unit is in contact with another schist unit in the headwaters of Newton Gulch, the site of a lode gold prospect is present (NM263).
  • 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 production information

  • Production Notes = About 500 ounces were produced in 1900, but placer mining, including some dredging, continued intermittently at least to 1932.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The Newton Gulch placer was mined by hand, probably using small-scale open cuts and hydraulic operations and by dredge from 1930 to 1932.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

Reporter information

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

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