| Deposit ID | 10308800 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | A015716 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Bear Creek |
| Related records | 10107560 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -161.08333, 65.5494 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | The Bear Creek placer mine is along about a mile of Bear Creek between Polar and Bob Creek. The coordinates are for the camp at the junction of Split Creek, on the boundary of sections 23 and 24, T. 2 N., R. 12 W., of the Kateel River Meridian. Cobb, 1972 (MF-389), locations 29 and 30. Also see Additional comments. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Northwest Arctic(Borough)
Alaska(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Candle C-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)
Candle N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Candle(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Buckland River(hydrologic unit)
Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)
Northwest(hydrologic subregion)
Alaska(hydrologic region)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| United States | Alaska |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Iridium Critical | Secondary |
| Osmium | Secondary |
| Lead | Secondary |
| Palladium Critical | Secondary |
| Platinum Critical | Secondary |
| Rhodium Critical | Secondary |
| Ruthenium Critical | Secondary |
| Zinc Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Gold | Ore |
| Platinum | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Model code | 119 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 39a |
| Deposit model name | Placer Au-PGE |
| Mark3 model number | 54 |
| (1) | -161.08333, 65.5494 |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| District name | Fairhaven |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | CA026 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A015716 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M045826 |
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| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Model Name = Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a). |
| Deposit | Other Comments = Some of the names associated with early mining claims are: Douglass and Edwards, Douglass and Milligrock, Hoxie, Tendness and Barr, Porter, and Wright. Prospecting work was done near the airstrip in 1964 (Herreid, 1965). |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 12-JAN-00 | Williams, Anita | U.S. Geological Survey |
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