Quartz Creek Mine (tributary to lower Solomon River), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Quartz Creek Mine (tributary to lower Solomon River)	Mine
Nome Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: This Quartz Creek is a south tributary to the lower Solomon River; its mouth is about 1,000 feet downstream from Quigleys Camp. The headwaters of Quartz Creek are across a low divide from Uncle Sam Creek. This was included as part of locality 101 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: The lower 1,000 feet of Quartz Creek flows across a bench along the south side of the Solomon River valley. Placer mining along this part of the creek took place as early as 1906-07 (Smith, 1910). Subsequent mining may have also taken place in this area but it has not been described. Bedrock here is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage that includes a distinctive black, very fine-grained, graphitic schist (Sainsbury and others, 1972, OFR 511; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Early workings were probably by hand.
Age: Quaternary; this part of the Solomon River is at low enough elevations to have been affected by Quaternary sea level fluctuations and the gold may have been through several cycles of erosion and redeposition.

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

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	SO168

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