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Dime Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Chromium
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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 10003191
MRDS ID A015729
Record type Site
Current site name Dime Creek Placer
Related records 10136176

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.16162, 65.20772 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candle A-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Candle S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Candle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Norton Bay(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

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-389, LOC. 45. GOLD MINE MARKED ADJACENT TO HAYCOCK ON CANDLE (A-5). LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Chromium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chromite Unknown
Platinum Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -161.16162, 65.20772
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CREEK FLOWS NEAR THE PROBABLY FAULTED CONTACT BETWEEN PALEOZOIC RECRYSTALLIZED CARBONATE ROCKS AND MESOZOIC ANDESITIC VOLCANIC ROCKS THAT WERE INTRUDED BY SMALL MAFIC AND ULTRAMAFIC PLUTONS. AREA NOT GLACIATED. ; MAJOR.UNITS: BEDROCK IS METAMORPHOSED ANDESITE IN SOME CREEK CLAIMS OLDER SLATE AND LIMESTONE WEST OF CREEK. ; REG.COM: PLATINUM DERIVED EITHER FROM ANDESITIC VOLCANICS OR FROM MAFIC OR ULTRAMAFIC BODIES INTRUDED INTO THEM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer Tom Moon And Henry Ryan
Year of first production 1915
Year of last production 1952

Mining district

District name Koyuk

Comments on the production information

  • MINING ON 3 CLAIMS YIELDED ABOUT 150 OUNCES IN 1915. IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THE PRODUCTION OF 1916 WAS ABOUT 5,000 OUNCES. PRODUCTION FROM WINTER AND SUMMER OPREATIONS IN 1917 TOTALED 7,500 OUNCES. IN 1917, 35 OUNCES OF PLATINUM WERE PRODUCED. MOST OF THE 56 OUNCES OF PLATINUM RECOVERED ON THE SEWARD PENINSULA IN 1918 CAME FROM DIME CREEK.

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL THE GROUND WORKED WAS FROZEN.

Comments on development

  • FIRST CLAIMS STAKED IN 1910 BY SAM SMITH. PROSPECT HOLES SUNK ON LOWER CLAIMS DID NOT WARRANT FURTHER OPERAITONS AND THE CLAIMS WERE ABANDONED. GOLD DISCOVERRED ON APRIL 4, 1915, AT THE MOUTH OF LITTLE ELDORADO CREEK; FOLLOWED BY A STAMPEDE TO THE CREEK. GOLD PLACERS MINED FROM 1915 TO 1952. MOST OF MINING WAS BY DRIFTING AND OPEN-CUT METHODS; A SMALL DREDGE OPERATED 1923-31 AND 1934-40.

Reference information

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General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD MAINLY ON BEDORCK, SOME IN LOWER 2-3 FEET OF GRAVEL. ON CREK CLAIMS ALLUNVIUM THICKNESS RANGES FROM 10 TO 30 FT.; BENCH CLAIMS ABOUT THE SAME. AT LOWER END OF CREEK 1 OZ. PT PER 250 OZ. AU. ON UPPER CLAIMS THERE MAY HAVE BEEN AS MUCH AS 1 OZ. PT PER 100 OZ. AU.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET PER MILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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