Balto Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
Regional Level Types | |
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Balto Creek Mine | Mine |
Nome Mining District | Mining District |
Nome Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
64° 38' 8'' North , 165° 27' 10'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Nome | 3,806 (2018) | 15.1km |
Mindat Locality ID:
196363
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:196363:5
GUID (UUID V4):
871d0394-214a-4547-b93f-ace4cb68830f
Other/historical names associated with this locality:
Marcus; Hunch; Agnes Association
Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - W
Deposit Model: Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Location: This alluvial placer gold mine is on Balto Creek, an east tributary to Snake River. Placer mining has taken place upstream of the Snake River road crossing and about 1.5 miles west-northwest of Mount Byrnteson. The map location is in the W1/2 section 10, T. 10 S., R. 34 W., Kateel River Meridian, and the location is accurate within 500 feet. This is locality 95 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]).
Geology: Some placer gold mining occurred on Balto Creek in the early 1900s(Collier and others, 1908; Chapin, 1914 [B 592-L, p. 397-407]). The gold-bearing gravels were as much as 25 feet wide, 4 to 5 feet thick, and extended along the creek for about one-half mile (Moffit, 1913). This narrow drainage also contains some placer scheelite (Coats, 1944; Thorne and others, 1948). Bedrock in the area is graphitic schist that probably of early Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Sainsbury, Hummel, and Hudson, 1972 [OFR 72-326]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994; Bundtzen and others, 1994).
Workings: Some small surface placer mine workings are present.
Age: Quaternary.
Select Mineral List Type
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 | |||
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ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
ⓘ | Scheelite | 7.GA.05 | Ca(WO4) |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
W | Tungsten | |
W | ⓘ Scheelite | Ca(WO4) |
Au | Gold | |
Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Other Databases
Link to USGS - Alaska: | NM203 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Brooks-Seward DomainDomain
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