Moran Creek Mine (Gulch), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Moran Creek Mine (Gulch) | Mine |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
64° 37' 19'' North , 164° 22' 22'' West
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Mindat Locality ID:
198986
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:198986:4
GUID (UUID V4):
22427b4b-25f2-4352-b5c1-cedd6258fb47
Location: Moran Creek is a small east tributary to the lower Solomon River. This location on Moran Creek is 0.5 mile northeast of Lees Camp. It was included as part of locality 101 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Early placer mining on Moran Creek (1908) was on gravel benches of the Solomon River (Smith, 1909) and the deposits may be reworked alluvial deposits. This part of the Solomon River is at low enough elevations to have been affected by Quaternary sea level fluctuations and the gold probably went through several cycles of erosion and redeposition. The gravels that were mined included at least some that were 3- to 4-feet thick on decomposed schist bedrock. Bedrock here is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that includes a distinctive black, very fine-grained, graphitic schist (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 511; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Small scale open cut placer workings are present on this creek.
Age: Quaternary; this part of the Solomon River is at low enough elevations to have been affected by Quaternary sea level fluctuations and the gold probably went through several cycles of erosion and redeposition.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a); possibly reworked alluvial and
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