Lynx Creek Occurrence, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Lynx Creek Occurrence	Occurrence
Port Clarence Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Lynx Creek is a stream about two miles west of Potato Mountain (TE024) that flows northwestward from headwaters on the continental divide to its mouth on Lopp Lagoon. Lynx Creek headwaters have four major tributaries and none directly drain uplands of Potato Mountain. This occurrence was not identified separately by Cobb and Sainsbury (1972) or Cobb (1975).
Geology: Bedrock in the drainage is a slaty metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age locally intruded by altered mafic bodies (Sainsbury, 1972). Mulligan (1966, p. 19 and 33) reports 0.03 pound tin per cubic yard from one sample site (of unknown type) at about 140 feet elevation on this drainage. This extends the area of low level detrital tin occurrences westward two or more miles from drainages with headwaters in the uplands of Potato Mountain. The elevation of this sample site is close to that of a Pleistocene strandline (150 to 200 feet) that has been inferred from geomorphic features 2 miles to the northeast where Potato Creek flows onto the lowlands adjacent to Lopp Lagoon (Hudson and Reed, 1997, p. 454).
Workings: One sample site of unknown type is reported by Mulligan (1966, p. 19 and 33).
Age: Quaternary

Commodities (Major) - Sn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	TE017

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