Windy Creek Mine (ARDF - TE099), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Windy Creek Mine (ARDF - TE099)	Mine
Port Clarence Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: This Windy Creek is a south tributary to the Right Fork Bluestone River. The mouth of Windy Creek is 2.4 miles upstream from the mouth of Skookum Creek and 1.25 miles downstream of the Ring Creek-Eagle Creek fork at the headwaters of Right Fork Bluestone River. The confluence of Windy Creek with North Fork Bluestone River is at about 360 feet elevation. This is locality 79 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'Windy Cr., trib. Bluestone R.'. Sainsbury and others (1969) did not show the location of mining operations along this creek and the location can only be considered approximate.
Geology: A regional boundary between metapelitic rocks to the northwest and chlorite schist and related rocks to the southeast parallels Windy Creek about 0.2 to 0.4 miles to the southeast of the main drainage (Sainsbury, 1972). The metapelitic assemblage makes up most of the bedrock in the Windy Creek drainage. Both regional assemblages locally contain metamorphosed mafic intrusive bodies. The age of these assemblages is not known but they are probably Paleozoic. The location of operations and the nature of the placer deposit here have not been described. Mining is reported for the years 1924 and 1926 to 1931 (Cobb, 1975).
Workings: Mining is reported for the years 1924 and 1926 to 1931 (Cobb, 1975).
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:	TE099

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