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Budd Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
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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. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003250
MRDS ID A016070
Record type Site
Current site name Budd Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Windy Cr.
Related records 10111775

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.52896, 65.60598 (WGS84)
Relative position TRIB. OF AMERICAN R.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Teller C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • PLACER TAILINGS ALONG LOWER 3/4 MILE OF WINDY CR. AND WITHIN 1500 FT OF CONFLUENCE WITH BUDD CR. 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
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.52896, 65.60598
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • UNVERIFIED REPORT OF CASSITERITE IN CONC. ; MAJOR.UNITS: YORK SLATE THRUST OVER SCHIST OF THE NOME GP.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on development

  • DREDGE OPERATED: 1913-1916, 1920; NON-FLOAT MINING IN 1946; DRILLING AND EXPLORATION, 1939.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AU AND CINNABAR IN STREAM GRAVELS.
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-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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