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Fourth of July Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000877
MRDS ID A011530
Record type Site
Current site name Fourth of July Creek Placer
Related records 10112866

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -145.21588, 61.4763 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valdez-Cordova(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Valdez B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Valdez SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Valdez C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Copper River(hydrologic unit)

Copper River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATED FROM USGS OFR 80-892B, LOC. 68 LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991). ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :49?

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -145.21588, 61.4763
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOURTH OF JULY CREEK IS UNDERLAIN BY METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF CRETACEOUS VALDEZ GROUP

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tiekel

Comments on the production information

  • VERY MINOR PRODUCTION INCIDENTAL TO EXPLORATION

Comments on development

  • DEVELOPMENT WORK 1929-1930 IS THE MOST RECENT PLACER MINING ACTIVITY IN THE AREA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL AMOUNT OF PLACER GOLD PRODUCED DURING EXPLORATION WORK IN 1929 AND 1930; NO OTHER DATA
Deposit NOT AN IMPORTANT PRODUCER; PLACER DEPOSITS OF VALDEZ QUADRANGLE GENERALLY SPARSE AND NON-ECONOMIC ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1985 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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