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Oakland Creek (formerly known as Diomede Creek)

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Tin
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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 10308394
Record type Site
Current site name Oakland Creek (formerly known as Diomede Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.60944, 65.67426 (WGS84)
Relative position Oakland Creek (formerly known as Diomede Creek) drains 4.5 miles northwest 4.5 from headwaters on Potato Mountain (TE024) to its mouth on Lopp Lagoon. The location of placer tin concentrations along this drainage are approximately located; the elevations shown on maps in USBM reports do not seem to match those on modern topographic maps. This is locality 27 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'Diomede Cr.'.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Teller NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shishmaref(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wales 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
Tin Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 123
USGS model code 39e
Deposit model name Alluvial placer Sn

Nearby scientific data

(1) -167.60944, 65.67426
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock in the headwaters of Oakland Creek is thermally metamorposed thin-bedded metapelite, metasandstone, and minor impure metacarbonate rocks of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. These rocks makeup the relatively resistant upland of Potato Mountain that is interpreted to be underlain at depth by biotite granite (Hudson and Reed, 1997, p. 454). Three to ten feet of overburden are present on gravels that locally reach 37 feet of thickness. The USBM churn-drill results are for pay sections on bedrock that are generally 1 to 6 feet thick but in two holes the gravel and pay thickness were both much greater (27 and 35 feet of pay in gravel sections 34 and 37 feet thick respectively). Tin concentrations between 0.04 and 0.24 pounds of tin per cubic yard were returned from 12 of 17 USBM churn-drill holes (Heide and Rutledge, 1949, p. 20). The tin concentrations are higher in lower parts of the sampled drainage (elevations estimated to be between 150 to 200 feet). This is close to where a Pleistocene strandline has been inferred from the geomorphic character of the area (Hudson and Reed, 1997, p. 454).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The USBM completed 17 churn-drill holes to bedrock along 4 lines spread out over 5,600 feet of the drainage length (Heide and Rutledge, 1949).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Heide, H.E. and Rutledge, F.A., 1949, Investigations of Potato Mountain tin placer deposits, Seward Peninsula, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4418, 21 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Hudson, T.L., and Reed, B.L., 1997, Tin deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 450-465.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Heide and Rutledge, 1949

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-98 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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