1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Rainy Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000269
MRDS ID A010313
Record type Site
Current site name Rainy Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -160.13608, 59.99931 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position Within A Radius Of 1 Mi

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bethel(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodnews Bay D-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Goodnews Bay NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goodnews Bay C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kuskokwim Delta(hydrologic unit)

Lower Kuskokwim River(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Togiak National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -160.13608, 59.99931
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MERCURY PROBABLY DERIVES FROM QZ VEINS IN SHEAR ZONE ON ARSENIC CREEK THAT CARRIES CINNABAR AND REALGAR. STREAM PLACERS ARE PROBABLY RECOMENTRATIONS OF GLACIAL DEPOSITS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Bethel District

Comments on the production information

  • ORE SAID TO BE HIGH GRADE

Comments on development

  • ACTIVITY WAS INTERMITTENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4065 P. 51

  • Deposit

    USGS MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS 339

  • Production

    USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4065, P. 51

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST OF THIS SITE IS IN BETHEL QUAD ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-83 Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.) 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.