Beaver Creek Ultramafic

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Chromium, Cobalt, Nickel, Rhodium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111819
MRDS ID A001912
MAS/MILS ID 0020490007
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Creek Ultramafic
Alternate or previous names Thomas Richard Coolidge, Unnamed Occurrence, Chamberlain Claims, Weco Mining Corp., Jo 1-1000

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -147.81693, 65.62748 (WGS84)
Elevation 761
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Livengood C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Circle NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Livengood(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Fairbanks 009 N 001 W 08 NWNWNW Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -147.81693, 65.62748

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tolovana

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE NE HALF OF THE ULTRAMAFIC BODY LIES INSIDE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. USGS SAMPLING YIELDED UP TO 0.51% NI, 12.8% CR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 11-JUL-1991 Mirl/Djb U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.