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Clear Creek Placer

Past Producer in Yukon Territory*, Canada with commodities Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Tin
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065837
MRDS ID TC41268
Record type Site
Current site name Clear Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -137.25249, 63.78316 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada Yukon Territory*

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Tin Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • 828-860 (AU)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -137.25249, 63.78316
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONCENTRATE INCLUDES TUNGSTEN, TIN, MAGNETITE AND CINNABAR; ABOUT 4 M THICKNESS OF SANDY GRAVEL; GOLD IS TABULAR AND WORN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dawson

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Clear Creek Placers; Queenstake Resources Ltd.

Comments on the production information

  • DISCOVERED EARLY 1900'S; FIRST DREDGE 1942-56 AND AGAIN 1980 TO PRESENT; 4,232 OZ AU WERE PRODUCED IN 1983; 3,335 OZ AU WERE PRODUCED 1981-1982; RESERVES (1984) INCLUDED 7 YEARS OF FUTURE PRODUCTION AT ABOUT 200,000 CM /YEAR.

Comments on the workings information

  • DREDGE, DRAGLINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DEBICKI, 1982, 1983; SKINNER, 1962; GREEN AND GODWIN, 1964; WOODSEN, 1984; WOROBEC, 1982; WESTERN MINER, 1984.

  • Deposit

    ORRIS, G.J. AND BLISS, J.D., 1985, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-213, 172 P.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

  • Reserve-Resource

    ORRIS AND BLISS, 1985.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1985 Orris, Greta J. (Bliss, James D.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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