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	Deposit Area 2021 - 017
	(Last updated 07.feb.2007)

Importance

Public:

Little Importance (reg. 18.02.2015)

Economical:

Minor interest , (Confirmed 07.feb.2005 by Peter Ihlen)

Mineralization

	Era:	Cenozoic	Period:	Quarternary
	Dating:		Method:
	Genesis:	Sedimentary deposit	Form:	Irregular
	Main texture:	Pore space filling	Min. distribution:	Irregular (scattered)

Main grain size:

Very unevenly grained

Main alteration:

	Strike/Dip:		Direction:
			Plunge:

Stratigraphic classification of host rock

Era:

Cenozoic

Period:

Quarternary

	Province:
	Geotec.unit:
	Tectonic complex:
	Igneous complex:

Group:

Formation:

Mineralogy

	Relationship	Mineral	Amount
	Ore mineral	Gold	Major mineral (>10%)

Information(s) in free text format

Abstract

The river terraces along Bavtajohka river have been the sites for several attempts to exploit gold by panning and use of sluices (Bjørlykke, 1966). The terrace surface that is situated 5-6 m over the present water level in Bavtajohka river, has been worked for a distance of 100 m along the western side of the river about 1 km above the confluence with Karasjohka river. The terrace consists of an upper 1,2-1,5 m thick unit of sand and gravel with large boulders, overlying clay-rich blocky till. Gold is mainly concentrated along the interface between reworked and untisturbed till.

Bibliography:

From NGU's Reference Archive:

Bjørlykke, Harald , 1966

	De alluviale gullforekomster i indre Finnmark.

;Norges geologiske undersøkelse;TIDSSKRIFTARTIKKEL;NGU; No.236;1-66 pages

Abstract:

The first find of alluvial gold in Finnmarken was made by inspector (bergmester) Tellef Dahll in 1866 in sand from a small river named Nitusjokka near Karasjok. During the following 5 years gold deposits were found in all the rivers of the Tana river systm and the Alta and Reisa rivers. Gold has been found in small amount in all kinds of sand- and gravel deposits and also in the unwashed moraine deposits. The gold fields which have been subject to production or prospection work are situated at the upper parts of the rivers. The occurrences of alluvial gold in Finnmark may be classified in The following way: 1. Preglacial accumulations undisturbed by ice erosion during the ice age. 2: Preglacial accumulations disturbed and redeposited in moraines and fluvioglacial deposits. 3. Accumulations in postglacial river beds. The gold in these deposits seems chiefly to have been washed out from the moraines. Mineralogical analyses of the mineral composition of the gold-bearing sand and gravel have been carried out. The minerals of the gold-bearing deposits may be divided in two groups: 1. Minerals belonging to the surrounding solid rock. 2. Minerals which do not seem to belong to the solid rock in the neighbourhood of the deposits.

Name of Locality : Gæs'sajohka

(Object Id : 2021,017,01,00)

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Location

County :

Finnmark (20)

Municipality :

Karasjok (2021)

Map 1:50000:

Bæivasgiedde (2033-3)

Map 1:250000:

Karasjok

Marking point:

Longitude:

24.7985860

Latitude:

69.1762770

EU89-UTM Zone 35

(Coordinates NOT confirmed)

X-coord:

412677 m.

Y-coord:

7675586 m.

Commodity

	Main Type:	Precious metals (Au,Ag,PGE)	Sub Type:	Gold
			Element(s):	Au

Production

	Activity:	Pitting	Reserves:
	Prod. method:		Production:
	Prod. status:	Disused, closed	Volume of dump:

Mineralogy

	Relationship	Mineral	Amount
	Ore mineral	Gold	Major mineral (>10%)

Information(s) in free text format

Abstract

Immediately south of the confluence with Gæs'sajohka river occur some old pits worked in the terrace 7-8 m above the present water level. As in the main Bavtajohka gold camp the gold probably occurs at the interface between indisturbed and reworked till. No attempts have been made to pan gold in the Gæssejohka river (Bjørlykke 1966).

Bibliography:

From NGU's Reference Archive:

Bjørlykke, Harald , 1966

	De alluviale gullforekomster i indre Finnmark.

;Norges geologiske undersøkelse;TIDSSKRIFTARTIKKEL;NGU; No.236;1-66 pages

Abstract:

The first find of alluvial gold in Finnmarken was made by inspector (bergmester) Tellef Dahll in 1866 in sand from a small river named Nitusjokka near Karasjok. During the following 5 years gold deposits were found in all the rivers of the Tana river systm and the Alta and Reisa rivers. Gold has been found in small amount in all kinds of sand- and gravel deposits and also in the unwashed moraine deposits. The gold fields which have been subject to production or prospection work are situated at the upper parts of the rivers. The occurrences of alluvial gold in Finnmark may be classified in The following way: 1. Preglacial accumulations undisturbed by ice erosion during the ice age. 2: Preglacial accumulations disturbed and redeposited in moraines and fluvioglacial deposits. 3. Accumulations in postglacial river beds. The gold in these deposits seems chiefly to have been washed out from the moraines. Mineralogical analyses of the mineral composition of the gold-bearing sand and gravel have been carried out. The minerals of the gold-bearing deposits may be divided in two groups: 1. Minerals belonging to the surrounding solid rock. 2. Minerals which do not seem to belong to the solid rock in the neighbourhood of the deposits.

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