Butte Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Butte 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° 42' 32'' North , 164° 19' 55'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Location: Butte Creek is a west tributary to the Solomon River. The mouth of Butte Creek is 2 miles upstream of East Fork. Mining took place over the lower 0.3 miles of Butte Creek and about 0.5 miles of the South Fork tributary of Butte Creek. This is locality 95 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: The gravels in lower part of creek were thoroughly worked prior to 1907 (Smith, 1910). Bench gravels on the west side of South Fork were productive. The bench gravels were about 8 feet thick on schist bedrock; the surface of the bench was 20 to 25 feet above the active channel. The part of Butte Creek that was mined follows a contact between schist and marble within a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Small-scale placer mining took place along this part of Butte Creek and its South Fork prior to 1907.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (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
1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| Au | Gold | |
|---|---|---|
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS - Alaska: | SO032 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Brooks-Seward DomainDomain
- Nome ComplexAccretionary Complex
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