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Unnamed 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 10308744
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -166.07339, 65.41629 (WGS84)
Relative position This is a north-flowing, south tributary to the Agiapuk River in the northeast Teller B-3 quadrangle. Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the presence of placer mining operations between surface elevations of 240 to 250 feet on an east tributary whose confluence with the main drainage is 2.5 miles upstream from the Agiapuk River. This locality was not included in the compilation of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized Sainsbury and others (1969) under the name 'Unnamed creek'.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller C(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

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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock in this drainage is a chlorite and mica schist assemblage that is locally intruded by small greenstone bodies (Sainsbury, 1972); the age of this assemblage is uncertain but it is probably Paleozoic. All that is known about this locality is that some placer mining operations took place along the lower 0.5 miles of the east tributary (Sainsbury and others, 1969).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not known

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the presence of placer mining operations between surface elevations 240 to 250 feet (the lower 0.5 miles) on the east tributary. The confluence of this tributary with the main drainage of the unnamed creek is 2.5 miles upstream from the Agiapuk River.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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