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

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

Location: Slate Creek is a south tributary to the Pilgrim River. The mouth of Slate Creek is about 3.5 miles downstream from the head of the Pilgrim River on Salmon Lake. This location is the 0.5 mile of the active channel upstream from the mouth of Rock Creek, a west tributary to Slate Creek. It is locality 25 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: Placer mining of the main channel of Slate Creek, for about 0.5 mile upstream from the mouth of Rock Creek, took place prior to 1908 (Collier and others, 1908). Mining recovered bright, flat gold from thin, 3- to 4-foot-thick gravels but there was probably only a few thousand dollars worth of total production (Smith, 1909). Gold-bearing altered dikes (SO120) have been located upstream from this mining. Bedrock in this area is mostly part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: Placer mining took place along about 0.5 mile of the active channel above the mouth of Rock Creek, prior to 1908.
Age: Quaternary.
Production: There was probably only a few thousand dollars worth of total gold production (Smith, 1909).

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:	SO138

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