Lower Crooked Creek Occurrence, Council Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Lower Crooked Creek Occurrence | Occurrence |
| Council Mining District | Mining District |
| Nome Census Area | Census Area |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
65° 1' 12'' North , 163° 40' 12'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| White Mountain | 196 (2017) | 39.7km |
Location: Crooked Creek is a short, 2.3 mile long west tributary to Ophir Creek. The mouth of Crooked Creek is 7,500 feet upstream (on Ophir Creek) from the southern boundary of the Bendeleben quadrangle. This occurrence is described as being near the mouth of Crooked Creek and is only approximately located, probably within one mile. It is locality 13 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).
Geology: A 12 foot-wide mineralized zone in schistose limestone (marble) contains quartz veins and pyrite. Collier and others (1908) report that a quartz stringer with pyrite assayed 0.06 ounces/ton Au and a trace of silver from this area and Smith and Eakin (1911) were told that assays as high as 0.04 ounces/ton Au had been obtained from this occurrence. Bedrock in the area is metasedimentary schist and marble of a Lower Paleozoic assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: This occurrence may have been exposed by surface placer mine workings on a bench along lower Crooked Creek.
Age: Possibly mid-Cretaceous; if gold-bearing lode structures are present here they may be similar in age to some lode gold deposits of southern Seward Peninsula. The southern Seward Peninsula lode gold deposits formed as a result of mid-Cretaceous metamorphism (Apodoca, 1994; Ford, 1993, Ford and Snee, 1996; Goldfarb and others, 1997) that accompanied regional extension (Miller and Hudson, 1991) and crustal melting (Hudson, 1994). This higher temperature metamorphism was superimposed on high pressure/low temperature metamorphic rocks of the region.
Alteration: Quartz veining and possibly pyrite disseminatioin in the metasedimentary host rocks is present.
Production: Placer gold from lower Crooked Creek was both coarse and rounded as well as sharp, angular, and with quartz attached (Smith and Eakin, 1911). Collier and others (1908) also noted that the fragile and crystalline placer gold suggested a local source.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Gold-bearing quartz veins in schistose marble
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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
3 valid minerals.
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS - Alaska: | BN100 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
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- Nome ComplexAccretionary Complex
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