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Cape Creek Placer Mine

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. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10110215
MRDS ID W000009
Record type Site
Current site name Cape Creek Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.9701, 65.58536 (WGS84)
Elevation 61

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-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wales Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -167.9701, 65.58536
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shallow And Deep Channels In Cape Creek

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL ORE PRODUCTION IS UNKNOWN. TIN PRODUCTION WAS MORE THAN 200 TONS. AMOUNT OF GOLD PRODUCTION IS UNKNOWN. PRODUCTION YEARS 1941 - 1950, 1968 - 1971

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POTENTIAL AMOUNT OF GOLD RESERVES AND RESOURCES UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MULLIGAN, J., 1965, USBM REPT INF

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1971 Sainsbury, C.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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