Windy Creek Mine (ARDF - TE077), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Windy Creek Mine (ARDF - TE077) | Mine |
| Port Clarence Mining District | Mining District |
| Nome Census Area | Census Area |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
65° 36' 10'' North , 165° 31' 19'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
202963
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:202963:7
GUID (UUID V4):
ab77ea39-cc2a-4e4c-8106-04a832535a23
Location: This Windy Creek is a tributary to Budd Creek in the eastern Teller C-2 and western Teller C-1 quadrangles. Budd Creek is an east tributary to the American River with headwaters along the continental divide just west of Kougarok Mountain. This is locality 75 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized references to this locality under the name 'Windy Cr., trib. American R.'.
Geology: The lower mile of Windy Creek, including the area of its mouth on Budd Creek, has been placer mined for gold. A small dredge operated here early in the century. Cinnabar is reported to be in heavy mineral concentrates from the placer operations but the reported presence of cassiterite has not been confirmed. The area of operations is 11 miles southwest, and across the continental divide from, the Kougarok tin prospect. Bedrock in the Windy Creek drainage is a metapelitic/metacarbonate assemblage of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. Another small area of historical placer operations appears to be present on upper Windy Creek in the Teller C-1 quadrangle. This location, about 0.4 miles of the creek starting 1 mile upstream from its confluence with Trilby Creek (a south tributary to Windy Creek), appears to have been the site of dozer and sluice operations at some unknown time.
Workings: Dredge mining took place on the lower mile of the creek and including the area of confluence with Budd Creek. Another local area of apparent dozer and sluice operations is 3.3 miles upstream from the confluence with Budd Creek (1 mile upstream of the mouth of Trilby Creek, a south tributary to Windy Creek).
Age: Quaternary
Production: Not recorded
Reserves: Not defined
Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Hg, Sn (?)
Development Status: Yes
Deposit Model: Alluvial Au placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| S | Sulfur | |
|---|---|---|
| S | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
| Hg | Mercury | |
| Hg | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS - Alaska: | TE077 |
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