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Lower Caribou Creek Placer

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000647
MRDS ID A011264
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Caribou Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Lee Bench

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -150.93846, 63.65207 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Denali(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Denali C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Denali NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mount McKinley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Denali National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
014S;015S 018W;018W 36;1 Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • PLACERED AREA EXTENDS 0.5 MI N AND S OF LOCATION, MAINLY ON W SIDE OF THE CREEK 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
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LOWER CARIBOU SLUICES PRODUCE HIGH-GRADE CONCENTRATES CONTAINING PB, AG, ZN AND AU

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result GRAVEL AT LEE BENCH AVERAGES 0.05 OZ/CY, ADGGS OFR 98, P.16

Nearby scientific data

(1) -150.93846, 63.65207
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 1828.8M
    Width 274.32M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD IS FINER AT THIS SITE DUE TO DISTANCE FROM PROBABLE SOURCE IN THE KANTISHNA HILLS ; REG.COM: KANTISHNA LODE DEPOSITS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kantishna

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Comments on the production information

  • DRAGLINE OPERATION IN 1939 TO 1941 PRODUCED UP TO 300 OZ AU PER WEEK; CLOSED FOR WORLD WAR II; APPARENTLY ONLY SLUICE OPERATIONS SINCE CLOSING

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FOR RESERVE INFORMATION, SEE: (CARIBOU CREEK) PLACER

Comments on the workings information

  • RECENT SLUICES IN OPERATION

Comments on development

  • SLUICES, AT LEAST ONE SUCCESSFUL DRAGLINE OPERATION IN THE 1930'S; RECENT SLUICING: 1975, INDIVIDUAL SLUICES REPORTED TO PROCESS SEVERAL HUNDRED CY DAILY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEE BENCH CONTAINS LOW GRADE PAYSTREAK UP TO 900 FT WIDE
Deposit SEE ALSO: (CARIBOU CREEK) PLACERS; STREAM GRADIENT: 75 FT/MI; ONE OF THE MAJOR PLACER PRODUCERS OF THE DISTRICT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1984 Leonard, Kenneth R. (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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