Eureka Creek Mine, Kougarok Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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

Location: Eureka Creek is a small north tributary of North Fork (Kougarok River). It is the first north tributary upstream from the mouth of North Fork on Kougarok river. The mouth of Eureka Creek is 500 feet east of the Nome-Taylor road and 2,000 feet northeast of the roads crossing of North Fork. Placer mine workings are shown by Sainsbury and others (1969) to start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west tributary to Eureka Creek. This is locality 34 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).
Geology: Early reports (Collier and others, 1908) reported mining about one mile upstream from the mouth that recovered fine gold from alluvial gravel containing schist and vein quartz fragments. Placer mine workings are shown by Sainsbury and others (1969) to start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west triburtary to Eureka Creek. Much bedrock is covered by tundra in the area but the nearest exposures are Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Surface open-cut placer mine workings start 3,500 feet upsteam from the mouth and extend for 1,500 feet to Camp Creek, a small west tributary to Eureka Creek.
Age: Quaternary

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

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