page_title: Kuskokwim Mountains
section_title: Sub-ranges
hierarchical_section_title: Kuskokwim Mountains / Sub-ranges
caption_attribution_description: English: Gold Locality: Kuskokwim Mts, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska, USA (Locality at mindat.org) For a gold nugget, this free-form , naturally water tumbled, and flattened specimen is extremely aesthetic. It look slike liquid gold, frozen in mid-spill! Its sculptural quality would make any art museum curator proud; and even as a serious collector of mineral specimens with euhedral crystals, this piece has captured me! Its weight is 2.16 ounces / 67 grams. One additional comment I’d like to make is that this piece closely resembles a piece in John Barlow’s collection 6.2 x 1.6 x 0.4 cm Deutsch: Gold Fundort: Kuskokwim Mts, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
context_page_description: The Kuskokwim Mountains is a range of mountains in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States, west of the Alaska Range and southeast of the Yukon River. The Kuskokwim Mountains begin in the interior west of Fairbanks. The mountain range extend from Canyon Creek and Chikuminuk Lake in the southwest over a distance of about 400 km long to the Tanana River in the northeast and reach a width of up to 80 km.
  The southeast flank of the Kuskokwim Mountains borders the rivers Kantishna, Kuskokwim, Holitna and Kogrukluk. In the northwest lie the Kaiyuh, Russian and Kilbuck Mountains as well as the rivers Innoko, Dishna and Iditarod.
  The range takes its name from the Kuskokwim River, which flows through the mountains, as well as Aniak and Nowitna rivers.
  Reported and defined in 1898 by Josiah Edward Spurr of the USGS. Spurr applied the name "Tanana Hills" to the low mountains at the northeast end of what are now the Kuskokwim Mountains.
context_section_description: Ahklun Mountains
  Eek Mountains
  Wood River Mountains
  Russian Mountains
  Kilbuck Mountains
caption: Water-worn gold nugget from the Kuskokwim Mountains. Weight: 2.16 troy ounces / 67 grams.
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