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Banner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

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. Mineral occurrence model information
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  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
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  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308399
Record type Site
Current site name Banner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.62542, 65.52226 (WGS84)
Relative position Banner Creek is an east tributary to the Anikovik River; their confluence is about 2.3 miles upstream from the mouth of the Anikovik River at York on the Bering Sea. The USBM completed three churn-drill holes on a line across this creek about 0.75 miles upstream from the mouth on Anikovik River. The churn-drill holes are just upstream of an unnamed south tributary to Banner Creek. This is locality 39 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'Banner Cr.'.

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-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Teller NE(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)

Federal lands

Wales Native Corporation(ANCSA Village)

ANCSA Village NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 123
USGS model code 39e
Deposit model name Alluvial placer Sn

Nearby scientific data

(1) -167.62542, 65.52226
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Banner Creek flows west from headwaters in Ordovician limestones of the York Mountains (Sainsbury, 1972) but most of its drainage is across a thin bedded metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. The USBM completed three churn-drill holes on a line across Banner Creek about 0.75 miles upstream from the mouth on Anikovik River; this location is just upstream of an unnamed south tributary to Banner Creek (Mulligan, 1959). The churn-drill holes encountered five feet of gravel on bedrock. Heavy mineral concentrates contained a trace of tin and included pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, ilmenite, tourmaline, zircon, augite, hematite, hypersthene, and cassiterite. Although first reports from this creek indicated the presence of some gold (Cobb, 1975), the USBM drilling did not encounter it. Mulligan (1959, p. 17) noted the presence of a felsic dike (with some sulfide minerals) in bedrock near the churn-drill locations.
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Three USBM churn-drill holes have been completed here (Mulligan, 1959).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Brooks, A.H., 1901, A reconnaissance of the Cape Nome and adjacent goldfields of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication. p. 1-180.

  • Deposit

    Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Sampling stream gravels for tin, near York, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5520, 25 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-98 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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