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Grouse Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Tin, Gold
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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 10101036
MRDS ID A016036
Record type Site
Current site name Grouse Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Skookum Cr., Sterling, Cr.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.45621, 65.63037 (WGS84)
Relative position TRIB. OF MINT R.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller C-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shishmaref(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN FOR DOWNSTREAM LIMIT OF DREDGED GROUND, (MOUTH OF E. FORK). LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GENERALLY LESS THAN 1 LB SN/CY

Nearby scientific data

(1) OPxpt
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Port Clarence/Potato Mt.

Comments on development

  • DREDGED: 1916-1919 OR 1920; NONFLOAT MINING CONTINUED UNTIL 1954.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TIN PLACER DREDGED FOR 5000 FT BELOW MOUTH OF BUCK CR. (TO MOUTH OF E. FORK)
Deposit SEE ALSO: (BUCK CR.) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1987 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Huber, Donald F.) 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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