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Eldorado Creek Placer

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Tin
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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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003247
MRDS ID A016065
Record type Site
Current site name Eldorado Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -166.10762, 65.93402 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller D-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shishmaref(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

  • APPROX. CENTER OF DISCOVERY CLAIM; DMEA CHURN-DRILL EXPLORATION ALONG LOWER 3000 FT OF CREEK (IN 1953); USBM RI 5493, FIG. 10, FIG. 12. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Cassiterite Unknown

Analytical data

Result INDICATED GRADE: TR. TO 0.8 LB SN/CY
Result AVG. ABOUT 0.3 LB SN/CY OF MINING SECTION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -166.10762, 65.93402
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 4.57M
    Length 1981.2M
    Width 10.67M

Comments on the geologic information

  • REG.COM: CONTACT ZONE OF EAR MT. PLUTON

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1901

Mining district

District name Serpentine/Ear Mt.

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on development

  • ALASKA TIN CORP DRILLED 20 CHURN-DRILL HOLES TOTALING 307.5 FT; DMEA CONTRACT, 1953.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINING SECTION: (INDICATED BY CHURN-DRILL HOLES) 2.0 - 15.0 FT INCLUDING 1 FT OF BEDROCK; ESTIMATED VOLUME OF GRAVEL: 215,000 CY IN DEPOSIT 6500 FT LONG BY 30-35 FT WIDE.
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Deposit SUBECONOMIC PLACER SN DEPOSIT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1987 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Huber, Donald 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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