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Waco

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000176
MRDS ID A010212
Record type Site
Current site name Waco

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -131.61181, 56.30976 (WGS84)
Relative position The approximate location of this prospect, known in 1981 (Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 7, loc. 6) only from a U.S. Bureau of Mines claims map (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979), is in Section 24, at an elevation of about 1800 feet. It is on a hillside northeast of a southeast-flowing branch of upper White River. This location probably is accurate within about a half-mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wade Hampton(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bradfield Canal B-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bradfield Canal SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bradfield Canal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tongass National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -131.61181, 56.30976
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in the general area of this reported mineral occurrence are Mesozoic or Paleozoic paragneiss and orthogneiss and subordinate amphibolite and marble (Koch, 1996, 1997). No other information about this occurrence was publicly available in 1997 (Koch, 1997, p. 23).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Petersburg

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Koch, 1997

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Other Comments = 10 lode claims staked in 1969 (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-MAY-1998 H. C. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.