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Bear Creek Placer

Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Rhenium, Platinum, Tin, Thorium, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003060
MRDS ID A015585
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -156.70889, 66.18841 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Shungnak SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Shungnak(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-458, LOC. 7. TAILINGS MARKED ON HUGHES (A-6). MINE MARKED ON HUGHES QUADRANGLE MAP. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = SHUNGNAK 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Rhenium Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CASSITERITE AND PLATINUM-GROUP METALS IDENTIFIED IN SAMPLES COLLECTED IN THE EARLY 1920'S.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore

Analytical data

Result SPHENE FROM ONE SAMPLE CONTAINED 28,450 PPM RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS AND 1,400 PPM TH. OLD REPORTS OF PLATINUM-GROUP METALS AND CASSITERITE IN CONCENTRATES PROBABLY ARE NOT CORRECT.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Glacial Sediment

Nearby scientific data

(1) -156.70889, 66.18841
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEAR CREEK FLOWS ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE ZONE HILLS QUARTZ MONZONITE-GRANODORITE PLUTON. ZONE OF THERMAL METAMORPHISM BORDERS PLUTON. ; REG.COM: AURIFEROUS GRAVELS DERIVED FROM GLACIAL DEPOSITS OF LOCAL ORIGIN; THE GOLD AND OTHER HEAVY MINERALS IN PLACER CONCENTRATES PROBABLY ORIGINALLY CAME FROM CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN UPPER CRETACEOUS PORPHYRITIC MONZONITE AND LOWER CRETACEOUS ANDESITIC VOLCANIC ROCKS BENEATH GLACIAL DEPOSITS ABOUT A MILE ABOVE MINED AREA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hughes

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U. V. Industries
    Home office P.O. Box 1170, Fairbanks, Ak. 99707

Comments on development

  • SMALL-SCALE MINING IN 1921; A DREDGE OPERATED FROM 1957 TO 1975. 19 MEN OPERATED DREDGE IN 1975.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET 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.
Deposit AURIFEROUS GRAVELS CONCENTRATED IN OUTWASH STREAMS FROM A GLACIAL LOBE THAT TERMINATED AT BEAR CREEK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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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