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Alder Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Production statistics
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111977
MRDS ID A015123
MAS/MILS ID 0020600015
Record type Site
Current site name Alder Creek
Related records 10002682

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -142.33339, 64.98037 (WGS84)
Elevation 579
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Southeast Fairbanks(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Eagle NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Eagle C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Doyon, Limited(ANCSA Region)

ANCSA Region NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Fairbanks 002 N 027 E 19 SWSWSE Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -142.33339, 64.98037
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Twin Dome Mines (Attn.-Roy Miettienen).
    ID 5001064
    Interest 100
    Home office Alaska
    Year 1977

Production statistics

  • Year 1915
    Description Production Reported 47 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1486g/mt
  • Year 1917
    Description 5 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 158g/mt
  • Year 1917
    Description 33 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1044g/mt
  • Year 1918
    Description 8,800 Yards Processed. 385 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 12170g/mt
  • Year 1918
    Description 60 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 1897g/mt
  • Year 1919
    Description 5,185 Yards Processed. 251 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 7937g/mt
  • Year 1919
    Description 47 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 1486g/mt
  • Year 1920
    Description 12,000 Yards Processed. 339 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 10720g/mt
  • Year 1921
    Description 6,000 Yards Processed. 155 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 4902g/mt
  • Year 1922
    Description 3,000 Yards Processed. 196 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 6198g/mt
  • Year 1923
    Description 8,000 Yards Processed. 225 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 7115g/mt
  • Year 1924
    Description 339 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 10720g/mt
  • Year 1925
    Description 355 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 11226g/mt
  • Year 1926
    Description 185 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 5850g/mt
  • Year 1927
    Description 120 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3795g/mt
  • Year 1928
    Description 88 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2783g/mt
  • Year 1929
    Description 46 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1454g/mt
  • Year 1930
    Description 10 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 316g/mt
  • Year 1931
    Description 54 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1708g/mt
  • Year 1936
    Description 24 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 759g/mt
  • Year 1941
    Description 4 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 127g/mt
  • Year 1941
    Description 24 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 759g/mt
  • Year 1942
    Description 1 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 32g/mt
  • Year 1942
    Description 6 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 190g/mt
  • Year 1947
    Description 15 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 474g/mt
  • Year 1947
    Description 81 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2561g/mt
  • Year 1948
    Description 7 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 221g/mt
  • Year 1948
    Description 38 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1202g/mt
  • Year 1949
    Description 100 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3162g/mt
  • Year 1949
    Description 19 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 601g/mt
  • Year 1951
    Description 11 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 348g/mt
  • Year 1951
    Description 4,444 Yards Processed. 64 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2024g/mt
  • Year 1953
    Description 118 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3735g/mt
  • Year 1953
    Description 22 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 696g/mt
  • Year 1954
    Description 228 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 7210g/mt
  • Year 1954
    Description 43 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 1359g/mt
  • Year 1955
    Description 26 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 822g/mt
  • Year 1955
    Description 30,000 Yards Processed. 156 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 4933g/mt
  • Year 1965
    Description 10,151 Yards Processed. 295 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 9329g/mt
  • Year 1965
    Description 54 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 1708g/mt
  • Year 1966
    Description 1 Troy Ounces Silver
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Silver Silver 32g/mt
  • Year 1966
    Description 242 Yards Processed. 8 Troy Ounces Gold
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 253g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1966: 4,174 OZ. OF GOLD AND 631 OZ. OF SILVER (USBMAFOC FILES). ROY MIETTIENEN WORKED ALDER CR. WITH A DOZER (CARNES, 1975). VALUES ON ALDER CR. ARE IN OR NEAR THE CREEK CHANNEL. GRAVEL DEPTH AVERAGED 4 FT. NUGGETS VALUED AT $19, $8.50, AND $7 (IN 1910) WERE FOUND (B480). SOME GOLD IS ROUGH AND OTHER SPECIMENS ARE WELL WORN. THE DEPOSITS SEEM TO BE IRREGULARLY DISTRIBUTED (B542).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-070

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-075

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-139

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-141

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-157

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-309

  • Ownership

    ALASKA KARDEX 060-310

  • Deposit

    B480j p. 172

  • Deposit

    B520l p. 217

  • Deposit

    B538 p. 79

  • Deposit

    B542j p. 219

  • Deposit

    B662b p. 56

  • Deposit

    B692b p. 37

  • Deposit

    B739a p. 33

  • Deposit

    B755a p. 39

  • Deposit

    B783a p. 14

  • Deposit

    B797a p. 23

  • Deposit

    B813a p. 34

  • Deposit

    B816 p. 164

  • Deposit

    B824a p. 39

  • Deposit

    B836a p. 38

  • Deposit

    B844A p. 40

  • Deposit

    B864A p. 42

  • Deposit

    B880A p. 47

  • Deposit

    B897A p. 55

  • Deposit

    B897C pp. 191, 193-194

  • Deposit

    B910A p. 57

  • Deposit

    B917A p. 56

  • Deposit

    B926A p. 54

  • Deposit

    B917D pp. 249, 255

  • Deposit

    B933A p. 50

  • Deposit

    B1315 p. 1

  • Deposit

    MF393

  • Deposit

    OF508 p. 69

  • Deposit

    BMOF98-76 pp. 27-31

  • Deposit

    POWERS, J.B. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FORTYMILE MINING DISTRICT

  • Deposit

    TO 1935. AK. TERR. DEPT. OF MINES MINER. REP. MR 60-2, 1935

  • Deposit

    19 PP.

  • Deposit

    ROEHM, J.C. REPORTED PLACER OPERATIONS AND MINING ACTIVITY

  • Deposit

    IN THE EAGLE PRECINCT, ALASKA. AK. TERR. DEPT. OF MINES

  • Deposit

    INVEST. REP. IR 60-2, 1949, 2 PP.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P.S. FINENESS OF GOLD FROM ALASKAN PLACERS. U.S.

  • Deposit

    GEOL. SURV. BULL. 910-C, 1941, PP. 198-201.

  • Deposit

    SWAINBANK, R.C., T.K. BUNDTZEN, A.H. CLOUGH, E.W. HANSEN,

  • Deposit

    AND M.G. NELSON. ALASKA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY, 1992. AK. DIV.

  • Deposit

    GEOL. AND GEOPHYS. SURV. SPEC. REP. NO. 47, 1993, P. 30.

  • Deposit

    BURLEIGH, R.E., AND K.G. LEAR. COMPLIALTION OF DATA FOR

  • Deposit

    PHASE 1 OF THE MINERAL RESOURCE EVALUATION OF THE BUREAU OF

  • Deposit

    LAND MANAGEMENT BLACK RIVER AND FORTYMILE RIVER SUBUNITS.

  • Deposit

    BUMINES OFR 48-94, 1994, 116 PP.

  • Deposit

    WGM INC. STAFF. 1976 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT, DOYON PROJECT,

  • Deposit

    VOLUME 1A, BLOCKS 1,4,5,7,8. DOYON LTD., FAIRBANKS, AK.

  • Deposit

    REP. NO. 77-02A, 1977.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-MAY-1991 Hall U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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