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Unnamed On Mitkof Island

Unknown in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Ore body information
  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 10111310
MRDS ID A106401
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed On Mitkof Island

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.7877, 56.71975 (WGS84)
Relative position SEE LOCATION COMMENTS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wade Hampton(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Petersburg C-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Petersburg N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Petersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Central 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

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF TWO LODE CLAIMS STAKED FOR AU IN 1957 ON NORTHEAST MITKOF ISLAND. NEAR OR ON AN UNNAMED CREEK IN THE NE1/4, SECTION 34, T. 59 S., R. 80 E. AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 200 FEET (U. S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1980). LOCALITY 19 OF GRYBECK, BERG, AND KARL (1984).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.7877, 56.71975
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Petersburg

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map No. 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Grybeck, D. J., Berg, H. C., and Karl, S. M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF TWO LODE CLAIMS STAKED FOR AU IN 1957; APPARENTLY NOT ACTIVE SINCE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1998 Berg, H. C. (Grybeck, D. J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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