Beaver Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Beaver Creek Mine	Mine
Nome Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Beaver Creek is an east tributary to the Eldorado River. Placer mining took place along 1.5 miles of the headwaters of the creek between elevations of 225 and 390 feet. This is locality 85 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Placer mining took place along 1.5 miles of the drainage between 225 and 390 feet elevation. A dredge was moved into the area and operated in 1940 (Smith, 1942). Mining may have continued for some time following WW II as the next stream to the north (Pajara Creek, ARDF SO035) was dredged in the late 1940's (Cobb, 1973, B 1374). Other information about the placer deposit or mining here is not available. The deposit is at low enough elevations to have been influenced by Quaternary sea level changes. Bedrock in the area is the Ordovican Casadepaga Schist, a mafic metavolcanic assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: The main drainage has open-cut placer workings, at least in part the result of dredging in the 1940's over 1.5 miles of the creek between 225 and 390 feet elevation.
Age: Quaternary; the deposit is at low enough elevations to have been influenced by Quaternary sea level changes.

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:	SO034

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