Bear Creek

Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Osmium, Rhodium, Ruthenium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109563
MRDS ID M045826
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Creek
Alternate or previous names Douglass and Edwards: Douglass and Milligrock: Hoxie, Tendness and Barr: Porter: Wright

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -161.07, 65.5494 (WGS84)
Relative position 35 MI SE CANDLE, ALASKA

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary
Osmium Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary
Ruthenium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -161.07, 65.5494

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fairhaven District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOFFIT, 1904, P. 78-79 (B225)

  • Deposit

    MOFFIT, 1905A, P. 63-64 (B247)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1908, P. 226 (B345)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1918, P. 21, 24 (B662)

  • Deposit

    5) MERTIE, 1918D, P. 455, 458 (B662)

  • Deposit

    6) BROOKS, 1919, P. 96 (B666)

  • Deposit

    7) MARTIN, 1919, P. 41 (B692)

  • Deposit

    8) HARRINGTON, 1919C, P. 380, 392-394 (B692)

  • Deposit

    9) MARTIN, 1920, P. 23, 52 (B712)

  • Deposit

    10) CATHCART, 1920, P. 189, 196 (B712)

  • Deposit

    11) BROOKS, 1921, P. 38 (B714)

  • Deposit

    12) BROOKS AND MARTIN, 1921, P. 71 (B714)

  • Deposit

    13) HARRINGTON, 1921B, P. 236 (B714)

  • Deposit

    14) BROOKS, 1923, P. 13 (B739)

  • Deposit

    15) MERTIE, 1923, P. 158 (B739)

  • Deposit

    16) BROOKS, 1925, P. 30 (B773)

  • Deposit

    17) SMITH, P. S., 1926,P. 17 (B783)

  • Deposit

    18) SMITH, P. S., 1930A, P. 34 (B810)

  • Deposit

    19) SMITH, P. S., 1930B, P. 40 (B813)

  • Deposit

    20) SMITH, P. S., 1932, P. 45 (B824)

  • Deposit

    21) SMITH, P. S., 1933A, P. 47 (B836)

  • Deposit

    22) SMITH, P. S., 1933B, P. 47 (B844-A)

  • Deposit

    23) SMITH, P. S., 1934A, P. 44 (B857-A)

  • Deposit

    24) SMITH, P. S., 1934B, P. 49 (B864-A)

  • Deposit

    25) SMITH, P. S., 1936, P. 51 (B868-A)

  • Deposit

    26) SMITH, P. S., 1938, P. 62-63 (B897-A)

  • Deposit

    27) ANDERSON, ESKIL, 1947, P. 39 (TDM5-R)

  • Deposit

    28) GAULT AND OTHERS, 1953, P. 3, 22 (C250)

  • Deposit

    29) CASS, 1959B, (I-287)

  • Deposit

    30) HERREID, 1965C, P. 8, 12-13 (GR12)

  • Deposit

    31) BERG AND COBB, 1967, P. 115 (B1246)

  • Deposit

    32) MILLER, T. P., AND ELLIOTT, 1969, P. 14, 16 (C614)

  • Deposit

    33) COBB, 1972, P. 40, 42-43 (OF508)

  • Deposit

    34) COBB, 1972 (MF389)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

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