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Unnamed (on the Stikine River)

Past Producer 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. Mineral occurrence model 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 10308043
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (on the Stikine River)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.23185, 56.68975 (WGS84)
Relative position Fine placer gold was found on bars of the Stikine River in the 1860's during the early exploration for gold when Russia still owned Alaska and the Hudson Bay Company maintained a trading post at Wrangell near the mouth of the Stikine River (Blake, 1860; Spurr, 1898). However, there is no record of placer claims on the Stikine, no record of placer mining since at least 1900, and no specific locations were cited for the early placer mining. Coordinates are arbitrarily located at about the midpoint of the Alaska section of the Stikine River. Locality 22 of Grybeck, Berg, and Karl (1984).

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-1(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 UND(Type of land area)

UND(Federal land areas administered by UND)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.23185, 56.68975
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Fine placer gold was found on unspecified bars on Stikine River in the 1860's during early exploration for gold in Alaska when Russia still owned Alaska and the Hudson Bay Company maintained a trading post at Wrangell near the mouth of the Stikine River (Blake, 1860, Spurr, 1898). However, there is no record of placer claims on the Stikine nor any record of placer mining since at least 1900.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Petersburg

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Probably trivial.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = None

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Fine placer gold was found on bars of the Stikine River in the 1860's during early exploration for gold in Alaska. There is no record of claims of significant gold placers in the Stikine or tributaries since before the turn of the century. The diggings are probably best thought of as prospects rather than mines even if small amounts of gold were produced.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Blake, W.P., 1868, Geographic notes upon Russian America and the Stikine River: 40th Congress, 2nd Session, House Executive Document 177, part 2, 19 p.

  • Deposit

    Spurr, J.E., 1898, Geology of the Yukon gold district, Alaska, with an introductory chapter on the history and conditions of the district to 1897 by H.B. Goodrich: U.S. Geological Survey 18th Annual Report, Part 3, p. 87-392.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870, 53 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-415, 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.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E. H., 1972, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870, 53 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Blake, 1868

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer gold (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Deposit Other Comments = In view of the many generations of prospectors and others who for more than 100 years have passed along the natural corridor of the Stikine River into the interior of Canada without any further mention of placer gold on the Stikine river, this site should now be considered as little more than a historic artifact.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-98 H.C. Berg and D.J. Grybeck U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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