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

Regional Level Types
Salmon Creek; upper Taylor 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 about 1,000 feet of placer workings along the lower part of this creek. This is part of locality 28 of Cobb (1972; MF 417; 1975; OFR 75-429).
Geology: Sainsbury and others (1969) show about 1,000 feet of linear placer workings along the lower part of this creek. This may be the approximate location of gravels on the sloping bench near the mouth that were mined in early years (Collier and others, 1908). 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 about 1,000 feet of linear, surface open-cut placer mine workings.
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:	BN039

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