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Flat Area

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Mercury, Tungsten, Antimony
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  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 10000547
MRDS ID A010752
Record type Site
Current site name Flat Area
Alternate or previous names Willow Creek, Chicken Creek, Malamute Creek, Slate Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -158.00849, 62.45217 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Iditarod SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Iditarod(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • A PRODUCTIVE PLACER AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 70 SQ MI. ON STREAMS DRAINING CHICKEN MOUNTAIN. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :49?

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Mercury Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Cinnabar Gangue
Scheelite Gangue
Stibnite Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -158.00849, 62.45217
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • REG.COM: DEEPLY WEATHERED MONZONITE STOCK WITH QUARTZ VEINS ON CHICKEN MOUNTAIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1910
Year of last production 1968

Mining district

District name Iditarod District

Comments on the production information

  • EQUAL TO 6% OF ALASKAN GOLD PRODUCTION UP UNTIL THAT POINT

Comments on the workings information

  • A DREDGE OPERATION FOR AS MANY AS 50 YEARS

Comments on development

  • MAY HAVE BEEN ACTIVE WELL PAST 1968

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WEATHERED INTRUSION SHEDS MATERIAL DOWN SLOPE AND INTO STREAMS. PLACERS SIMILARLY GRADE FROM RESIDUALS TO CREEK BEDS, DECREASING IN FINENESS DOWN STREAM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 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.

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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