Puzzle Creek Mine (Gulch), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Puzzle Creek Mine (Gulch) | Mine |
| Nome Mining District | Mining District |
| Nome Census Area | Census Area |
| Alaska | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
64° 38' 49'' North , 164° 26' 41'' West
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Location: Puzzle Creek is a 3,500-foot-long, north tributary to Mystery Creek (SO016). The mouth of Puzzle Creek is about a mile upstream of the confluence of Mystery Creek and Shovel Creek and about 2.5 miles-northwest of Lees Camp on the Solomon River. It was included as part of locality 86 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Small-scale mining took place here in the early 1900's (Smith, 1910). The area is one where both bench deposits and ancestral channels can be present (see Mystery Creek, SO016). The gold recovered here was very coarse, some with attached quartz, and partly wiry. Bedrock here is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 511; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Small-scale hand and hydraulic operations probably took place in the early 1900s.
Age: Quaternary; the elevation (200 feet) of this area indicates it may have been affected by Quaternary sea level fluctuations (see Problem Creek, SO170).
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Yes; small
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
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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
1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| Au | Gold | |
|---|---|---|
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS - Alaska: | SO169 |
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Brooks-Seward DomainDomain
- Nome ComplexAccretionary Complex
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