Bluff Creek Prospect, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Bluff Creek Prospect	Prospect
Nome Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Bluff Creek is an east tributary of Arctic Creek; the mouth of Bluff Creek is about 1.5 miles down Artic Creek from the Nome-Teller road. The course of lower Bluff Creek and a small north tributary are covered by patented mining claims, although there does not appear to have been any significant placer mining. The location given is the approximate mid-point of the patented claims.
Geology: Lower Bluff Creek and a small north tributary are covered by patented mining claims, although there does not appear to have been any significant placer mining. Bedrock in lower Bluff Creek is mineralized pyritic graphitic quartz schist; a bedrock sample collected on Arctic Creek (NM153) about 500 feet above the confluence of Bluff Creek contained 15 ppb gold, 1,340 ppm arsenic, and 41 ppm antimony. Bedrock in the general area of Bluff Creek was mapped as pelitic micaceous graphitic schist (Sainsbury and others, 1972 [OFR 72-321]; Bundtzen and others, 1994).
Workings: This is an area of patented mining claims, possibly the patented five claims of G. Schofield reported by Heiner and Porter (1972, Kardex site Kx 52-48).
Age: Quaternary.

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined
Deposit Model: Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	NM154

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