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Bryan Creek

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Tin, Tungsten
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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
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308740
Record type Site
Current site name Bryan Creek
Alternate or previous names Dick Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.00643, 65.82532 (WGS84)
Relative position Bryan Creek is a northeast flowing drainage with some headwater tributaries on the northeast flank of the Kougarok Mountain upland. This location is at the confluence of Bryan Creek and its southeast tributary, Dick Creek. This confluence is at an elevation of about 275 feet on the eastern border of the Teller D-1 quadrangle. This is locality 65 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972) and relevant references were summarized by Cobb (1975) under the name 'Bryan Cr.' and 'Dick 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 D-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tin Critical Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -165.00643, 65.82532
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Dick Creek is a north-flowing tibutary to Bryan Creek that has been placer mined for its gold content. Bryan Creek, the only placer mine in the Serpentine district, is almost all in the Bendeleben quadrangle. Only a small part of this mine, at the confluence of Dick Creek and Bryan Creek, may be in the Teller quadrandle. A dredge may have worked on the creek early on but most of the mining has been by dozer and sluice methods. Cassiterite and scheelite are reported from concentrates.
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Serpentine

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = Not known

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Not defined; most of lower Dick Creek has been mined.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Open cut dozer operations dominated the work here.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Collier and others, 1908; Anderson, 1947

General comments

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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