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

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

Location: Salmon Creek is a north tributary to Taylor Creek. The mouth of Salmon Creek ( formerly known as Solomon Creek, Cobb, 1975) is about 6 miles upstream from the mouth of Taylor Creek (BN033). Sainsbury and others (1969) show 1,500 feet of placer workings in the stream channel starting 2,000 feet upstream of the mouth. Placer workings at the mouth of this stream are included as ARDF locality BN039. This is locality 28 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).
Geology: Sainsbury and others (1969) show 1,500 feet of placer workings in the stream channel starting 2,000 feet upstream from the mouth. Gold-bearing gravels associated with this drainage are 3 to 7 feet thick and covered by 8 to 10 feet of muck (Collier and others, 1908). Bedrock is extensively mantled by tundra in the area but where exposed in nearby uplands it is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Sainsbury and others, 1969; Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Sainsbury and others (1969) show 1,500 feet of open-cut placer workings in the stream channel, starting 2,000 feet upstream from the 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:	BN040

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