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Gold Run Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Kyanite
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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 10001862
MRDS ID A012681
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Run Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Trio Cr.
Related records 10257997

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -162.07668, 65.5466 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position TRIB. OF KIWALIK R.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben C-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • ARBITRARILY CHOSEN POINT ON GOLD RUN CREEK; LOCATION OF INDIVIDUAL PLACER OPERATIONS UNKNOWN, BUT AT LEAST PARTLY IN CANDLE QUAD. 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
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Kyanite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Kyanite Ore
Scheelite Unknown
Wolframite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -162.07668, 65.5466
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAJOR.UNITS: SCHIST, LIMESTONE, GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908
Year of first production 1909

Mining district

District name Fairhaven

Comments on development

  • MINING REPORTED: 1909, 1927-29, 1936; PROSPECTING REPORTED: 1930-1935, 1937-1940; MOST RECENT PROSPECTING WAS IN 1955 (REPORTED)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER GROUND 6-12 FT DEEP IN UPPER PART OF CREEK; CONC. SAMPLE TAKEN 11 MILES ABOVE MOUTH CONTAINED KYANITE, SCHEELITE AND WOLFRAMITE.
Deposit SOME MINING MAY HAVE BEEN IN CANDLE QUAD. ; 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-APR-1987 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Huber, Donald F.) U.S. Geological Survey

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