Ring Creek Mine, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Ring Creek Mine	Mine
Port Clarence Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Ring Creek is the south -flowing headwater tributary of Right Fork Bluestone River in the west-central Teller A-3 quadrangle. Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations along the principal west tributary to Ring Creek from the confluence at 440 feet surface elevation, upstream 0.6 miles to a surface elevation of 500 feet. This locality was not included by Cobb and Sainsbury (1972) or Cobb (1975).
Geology: Bedrock in the Bering Creek drainage is a metapelitic sequence that is locally cut by metamorphosed mafic intrusive bodies (Sainsbury, 1972). The age of this sequence is uncertain but it is probably Paleozoic. Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations along the principal west tributary to Ring Creek from the confluence at 440 feet surface elevation, upstream 0.6 miles to a surface elevation of 500 feet. The date of these operations is not known and the character of the placer deposit has not been described.
Workings: Sainsbury and others (1969) mapped the location of placer mining operations along the principal west tributary to Ring Creek from the confluence at 440 feet surface elevation, upstream 0.6 miles to a surface elevation of 500 feet. The date of these operations and the mining method employed are not known; they were probably dozer and sluice operations.
Age: Quaternary
Production: Not reported
Reserves: Not defined

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

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	TE102

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