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Buckner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

Occurrence 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308732
Record type Site
Current site name Buckner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)
Alternate or previous names Buhner Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.61942, 65.53326 (WGS84)
Relative position This locality is at the mouth of Buckner Creek and just upstream on the Anikovik River, about 3.5 miles from its mouth at York on the Bering Sea. The elevation here is about 125 feet. This is locality 40 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'Buhner Cr.', an old spelling for Buckner Creek. Buckner Creek is a short (1 mile long) west tributary to the Anikovik River. It has some historical significance in that it is the first location where coarse gold and cassiterite were reported from western Seward Peninsula (Cobb, 1975).

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)

Shishmaref(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(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 Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 123
USGS model code 39e
Deposit model name Alluvial placer Sn

Nearby scientific data

(1) -167.61942, 65.53326
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Bedrock of the Anikovik River drainage includes two major assemblages (Sainsbury, 1972). Throughout most of the drainage, bedrock is a slaty metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age locally intruded by altered mafic bodies. Ordovician limestone of the York Mountains makes up bedrock in the headwaters of the eastern tributaries. The USBM reported results from three churn-drill holes in this part of Anikovik River (Mulligan, 1959, p. 18-19); there was no overburden and only 3 to 4 feet of gravel over bedrock in these holes. The two upstream a short distance from the mouth of Buckner Creek had a trace of tin detected in the heavy mineral concentrates but only pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, augite, zircon, and garnet were identified minerals. The one churn-drill hole from the mouth of Buckner Creek contained heavy mineral concentrate with pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, hematite, augite, zircon, and cassiterite. Gold was not identified in any of these churn-drill holes.
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Some early hand mining was attempted on Buckner Creek. The USBM completed 3 churn-drill holes in this area (Mulligan, 1959, p. 8).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Sampling stream gravels for tin, near York, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5520, 25 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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