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Camp Creek

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 10001822
MRDS ID A012634
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek
Related records 10282352

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -163.92941, 64.93126 (WGS84)
Relative position Camp Creek is a southwest tributary to the Niukluk River. The mouth of Camp Creek is about 9 miles upstream from Council at about 130 feet elevation. Dredge tailings extend about 0.3 miles up the creek from the mouth and about 0.2 miles downstream along the west bank of the Niukluk River. This is locality 115 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Solomon D-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Solomon NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Solomon C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nome(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

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 Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -163.92941, 64.93126
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Dredge tailings extend about 0.3 miles up the creek from the mouth and about 0.2 miles downstream along the west bank of the Niukluk River. Early mining was by hand and hydraulic methods (Collier and others, 1908); a dredge operated here in 1915-18 and 1939-40 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181). The early minng encountered three feet of gold-bearing gravel beneath 3 feet of overburden. A 40-foot shaft on a bench near the mouth of Camp Creek encountered 20 feet of ice and sand over 12 feet of frozen gold-bearing gravel. Bedrock exposures are poor; it may be part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage or possibly an Ordovician metavolcanic assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
  • 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 Council

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Dredge tailings extend about 0.3 miles up Camp Creek from the mouth and about 0.2 miles downstream along the west bank of the Niukluk River. Early mining was by hand and hydraulic methods (Collier and others, 1908); a dredge operated here in 1915-18 and 1939-40 (Cobb, 1978, OF 78-181).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    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.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.

  • Deposit

    Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb, 1978 (OF 78-181)

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 19-AUG-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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