Penny River Prospects, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Penny River Prospects	Group of Prospects
Nome Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: This prospect consists of patented mining claims along Penny River. They extend about 1.5 miles upstream and about 2.5 miles downstream from the mouth of Willow Creek (NM162). The mouth of Willow Creek is 500 feet downstream from where the Nome-Teller road crosses Penny River. The location is the approximate mid-point of the patented claims.
Geology: Penny River parallels or follows the Penny River fault over most of its length (Bundtzen and others, 1994), and several mineralized areas are present along or near this fault. Although patented mining claims exist along this part of Penny River, there is no evidence of significant mining. It is assumed that gold on Penny River is fine grained and only locally concentrated in point bar and other river deposits. Early claims were staked on the Penny River by the Pioneer Mining Company and later transferred to the F.E. Company (Heiner and Porter, 1972). A map of Hammon Consolidated Goldfields of about 1925 also shows mining claim activity along Penny River.
Workings: Mining claims were staked in 1913 by Pioneer Mining Company and later assigned to the F.E. Company. The claims were active from 1913 until 1978 (Heiner and Porter, 1972; Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982). There is no record of significant mining.
Age: Quaternary.

Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined
Deposit Model: Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	NM184

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