Bear Gulch Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
64° 40' 44'' North , 164° 20' 56'' West
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Mindat Locality ID:
196412
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:196412:0
GUID (UUID V4):
d9ac1634-0cc9-40fb-a9d9-4d155950c6c8
Location: Bear Gulch is a very small north tributary to Minnesota Creek; it is located about 1.5 miles (ca 2.4 kilometres) upstream of the confluence of Minnesota Creek and Penny Creek (SO018) and about 2.3 miles (ca 3.7 kilometres) north of Quigleys Camp on the Solomon River. The lower part of Bear Gulch is at an elevation of 350 feet (ca. 107 m). This is locality 92 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Smith (1910) reports that most of the gravels in this drainage were mined by 1907. Bedrock is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 511; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: The early mining was probably mostly hand operations.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major): - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
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Link to USGS - Alaska: | SO026 |
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