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Idaho 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. 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 10001932
MRDS ID A012766
Record type Site
Current site name Idaho Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.74835, 65.24042 (WGS84)
Relative position This location is on Idaho Creek, 3,000 to 4,500 feet north of its mouth on the Kuzitrin River, and 10,500 feet east of the Nome-Taylor road. It is locality 46 of Cobb (1972; MF 417).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben A-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(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

Bering Straits Native Corporation(ANCSA Region)

ANCSA Region 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.74835, 65.24042
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Gold colors are reported from an 18-foot deep test pit in stream gravels. The test pit, dug in 1899, did not reach bedrock and its digging was hampered by the presence of large rock fragments (Brooks and others, 1901). Sainsbury and others (1969) show 1,500 feet of the drainage to have been placer mined. This mine is near a regional fault contact between high grade metamorphic rocks and lower grade Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986). Significant gold placers are spatially associated with the lower metamorphic grade, metasedimentary assemblage elsewhere on Seward Peninsula.
  • 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 Kougarok

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = An 18-foot deep test pit was dug in 1899 to test the stream gravels. About 1,500 feet of the drainage has been placer mined from open cuts.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

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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