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Bonanza Creek Area

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Mercury
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000508
MRDS ID A010700
Record type Site
Current site name Bonanza Creek Area
Alternate or previous names Bonanza Creek, Little El Dorado Creek, Gold Run Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -141.87194, 62.08303 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valdez-Cordova(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nabesna A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Nabesna SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nabesna(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve(National Preserve)

National Preserve NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • A PRODUCTIVE PLACER AREA OF APPROXIMATELY 40 SQ. MI. INCLUDING BONANZA CREEK AND THE STREAMS DRAINING GOLD HILL LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Copper Gangue
Galena Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) KJgv
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • REG.COM: TERTIARY GRAVELS ON GOLD HILL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Chisana District

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED AS MUCH AS 50,000 TOZ AU

Comments on development

  • MOST PRODUCTION BETWEEN 1913 AND 1916

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS B1374, P. 115

  • Deposit

    USGS OFR 80-927, P. 9-10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 52, 54.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CREEK PLACERS FROM DRAINAGES OF GOLD HILL ARE RECONCENTRATIONS OF TERTIARY GRAVEL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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