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

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

Macklin Creek is the northeast headwater tributary of Kougarok River. Macklin Creek joins with Washington Creek to become Kougarok River in the northcentral Bendeleben C-6 quadrangle.

This location includes areas of placer mining on Macklin Creek that continues upstream across the Bendeleben C-6 and D-6 quadrangle boundary. Sainsbury and others (1969) show 8,500 feet of continuous placer workings along the main channel of Macklin Creek starting 4,500 feet upstream of the mouth. This is locality 26 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).

Geology: Placer gold deposits were first reported to be worked on Macklin Creek in 1901 (Collier, 1902). This first mining included paystreaks with pans worth $0.75 (0.04 ounces at $18 per ounce). Sainsbury and others (1969) show 8,500 feet of continuous placer workings along the main channel of Macklin Creek starting 4,500 feet upstream of its mouth. Macklin Creek has been extensively worked over this distance and has apparently been an important producer in the upper Kougarok River area.

Bedrock in the area is part of a Lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).

Workings: Sainsbury and others (1969) show 8,500 feet of continuous placer workings along the main channel of Macklin Creek starting 4,500 feet upstream from its mouth.

Age: Quaternary

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

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	BN045

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