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2 unusual facts about Norton Bay


Norton Bay

Placer gold deposits are very few in the Nulato-Norton Bay area in some pockets of Cretaceous and Tertiary deposits) as compared to the finds in the Nome area.

The inference, based on field studies, is that the Nulato-Norton Bay region evolved during the Cretaceous period.



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Richard D. Cotter

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.