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Gold Dome

Prospect 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. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
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  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308536
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Dome

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.54339, 65.61933 (WGS84)
Relative position The Gold Dome prospect is on the east side of Harris Dome, 5 miles east of the Nome-Taylor road. The active claims here straddle the divide between Little Harris Creek and Harris Creek which is at an elevation of about 1,175 feet.

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

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gangue = Iron oxide

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • Iron oxide staining and quartz veining have been locally observed.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.54339, 65.61933
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Altar Resources (P. O. Box 42831, Tuscon, AZ 85733) maintains a small claim block on a faulted contact between marble and schist. Stream sediment samples in the area contain up to 390 ppb gold and six soil samples from the divide area between Litle Harris Creek and Harris Creek contain between 10 and 155 ppb gold (Altar Resources, 1999). Metasedimentary rocks in this area are Paleozoic in age (Till and others, 1986).
  • Age = Unknown but possibly Cretaceous; if gold-bearing lode structures are present here they may be similar in age to some lode gold deposits of southern Seward Peninsula. The southern Seward Peninsula lode gold deposits formed as a result of mid-Cretaceous metamorphism (Apodoca, 1994; Ford, 1993, Ford and Snee, 1996; Goldfarb and others, 1997) that accompanied regional extension (Miller and Hudson, 1991) and crustal melting (Hudson, 1994). This higher temperature metamorphism was superimposed on high pressure/low temperature metamorphic rocks of the region.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active

Mining district

District name Kougarok

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Some geologic mapping, soil sampling, and stream sediment sampling has been completed.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Altar Resouces, 1999

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Gold-bearing quartz veins in metamorphic rocks

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-1999 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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