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Pearl Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Bismuth
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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 10002858
MRDS ID A015339
Record type Site
Current site name Pearl Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Yellow Pup Creek
Related records 10002834, 10112032

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.31405, 64.98912 (WGS84)
Relative position 16 MILES NE OF FAIRBANKS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fairbanks North Star(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairbanks D-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Big Delta NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fairbanks(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-410, LOC. 59. PLACER GROUND ALONG PEARL CREEK FROM ABOUT 1/4 MI. ABOVE TO 1/4 MI. BELOW CONFLUENCE WITH YELLOW PUP CR. COORDINATES GIVEN FOR CONFLUENCE WITH YELLOW PUP CREEK. PLACER 1.5 MI. ENE OF GILMORE DOME. 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
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.31405, 64.98912
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CREEK HEADS IN AREA WHERE SCHEELITE OCCURS IN CONTACT METAMORPHOSED LIMESTONE AND GOLD-BEARING QUARTZ VEINS NEAR PORPHYRITIC GRANITE INTRUSIVE BODY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fairbanks

Comments on development

  • PLACER GOLD MINED 1911-14, 1938-40.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IN STREAM PLACER. ABUNDANT PLACER SCHEELITE AND WOLFRAMITE. GOLD MAY ALSO BE FOUND NEAR MOUTH OF YELLOW PUP CREEK.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 150 FT. PER MILE. ; 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-JUN-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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