Coarse Gold Creek (central)

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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 10107530
MRDS ID A012701
Record type Site
Current site name Coarse Gold Creek (central)
Related records 10160731

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.82533, 65.56321 (WGS84)
Relative position Coarse Gold Creek is a west tributary to Kougarok River. Its mouth is 2 miles west of the Nome-Taylor road measured from just north of the roads crossing of North Fork (Kougarok River). Placer mining along the central part of this creek took place over a length of 4,000 feet starting 2.3 miles upstream of the mouth. This mining was above and below the mouth of Nugget Creek, a small south tributary to Coarse Gold Creek. This locality was not included by Cobb (1972; MF 417). Cobb (1975; OFR 75-429) references may be for locations along the creek or at the mouth (BN024).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Bendeleben NW(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)

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) -164.82533, 65.56321

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Little is reported concerning placer gold on central Coarse Gold Creek. Gold was reported and some mining took place somewhere on the creek by 1908 (Collier and others, 1908; Smith, 1909). Sainsbury and others (1969) show 4,000 feet of placer mine workings both above and below the mouth of Nugget Creek, a small south tributary to Coarse Gold Creek. Bedrock exposures in a small area along the placer-mined part of the creek are shown by Sainsbury and others (1969) to be both metasedimentary rocks (part of a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage of Till and others, 1986) and metagabbroic rocks. The metagabbroic rocks are part of a mafic metavolcanic assemblage that Till and others (1986) consider to be Ordovician in age.
  • 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 = Surface open-cut placer workings are present along 4,000 feet of the main stream channel.

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

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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