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Gold from
Kugruk River Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kugruk River Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:583959
Long-form Identifier:1:3:583959:9
GUID (UUID V4):b6bb1951-f486-4687-8191-da14d0c7074d
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
3.6km (2.2 miles) Chicago Creek Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
16.5km (10.2 miles) Patterson Creek Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Jump Creek; Wild Bunch Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) Candle Creek Mine (ARDF - BN074), Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
21.5km (13.4 miles) Jump Creek Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
22.6km (14.0 miles) Minnehaha Creek; Mud Creek Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) Alder Creek Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) John Bull Hill Mine, Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Eskimo Gulch Mine (near Motherwood Point), Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Candle Creek Mine (ARDF - CA040), Fairhaven Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
WALCOTT, DIRECTOR T 1-1 FAIRHAVEN GOLD PLACERS, SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA BY FRED H. 1V10171_= WASHINGTON...statement Stream and beach gravels 4 Marine and river terraces 4 Glacial deposits 4 Residual soil Ground...Introduction Kugruk Plateau Terraces 4 Lowlands Later geologic history Economic geology 4 Location of gold field...Creek Pinnell River Perry Creek Inmachuk River Kiwalik basin 4 Candle Creek Bucklaud River basin 4 Bear...Bear Creek Kugruk basin_ Dixie Creek Alder Beach 4 Source of the gold Summary 4 4 Coal General conditions
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mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. 1K'«r RM111 /BN140 / WtKS\ / /BN057 / BBN^///BNl4...Bendeleben 1:250,000-scale quadrangle, western Alaska This and related reports are accessible through...REPORT 99-332 Alaska Resource Data File BN001 Site name(s): Idaho Creek Site type: Mine ARDFno.: BN001...to 4,500 feet north of its mouth on the Kuzitrin River, and 10,500 feet east of the Nome-Taylor road. It...Main: Au Other: Ore minerals: Gold Gangue minerals: Geologic description: Gold colors are reported from an
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WATER-QUALITY RECORDS TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1978 NORTHWEST ALASKA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 58of .80-553 80 OPEN-FILE...30, 1978 NORTHWEST ALASKA By N Patsy J. Still OPEN-FILE REPORT 80-553 Anchorage, Alaska 1980 UNITED...Division 733 West 4th Avenue, Suite 400 Anchorage, Alaska 99501 CONTENTS Page Introduction Explanation...4 5 5 6 16 ILLUSTRATION Figure 1. Map of northwest Alaska hydrologic subregion 2, 3 TABLE Table 1...Index of streamflow and water-quality records, northwest Alaska iii 7 INDEX OF STREAMFLOW AND WATER-QUALITY
Report (issue)
Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, Volume 15 Hydrogeochemical Exploration—A Reconnaissance...Reconnaissance Study on Northeastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska Professional Paper 1814–A U.S. Department of the...abandoned dredge near historic Utica gold camp, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (U.S. Geological Survey photograph...Graham). Studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, Volume 15 Hydrogeochemical Exploration—A Reconnaissance...Reconnaissance Study on Northeastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska By Garth E. Graham, Ryan D. Taylor, and Steve Buckley
Report (issue)
MINING IN NORTHWESTERN ALASKA. By S. H. CATHCART. INTRODUCTION. The season of 1918 was the most unfavorable...unfavorable for placer mining that the Seward Peninsula has experienced. Several factors combine to account...Solomon Eiver district frost as deep as 10 feet was reported, and in the Council City district frost was... fuel, and foodstuffs was felt severely in all mining operations. It is estimated that the cost of production...MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1918. $1,108,000 represents the value of the placer gold and $87,172 the value
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MINING IN SEWAKD PENINSULA, By FRED F. HENSHAW. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The mining industry suffered a general...during the season of 1909. The value of the total gold production fell from about $7,000,000 in 1907 and...determined, is given in the following table: Value of gold production in Seward Peninsula, 1897 to 1909. 1897...have been more severe than in any other year since mining began, more than a decade earlier. A comparison...Bull. 442 10 23 353 354 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1909. the fall of 1907 was very stormy and the
Report (issue)
.............................................. Kugruk group ......................................................................................... Arctic coastal plain ............................................. 43 Distribution and source of placer gold .............................................................................................. 47 Gold ................................................................................................ Arctic region .......................................
Report (issue)
of gold was won, to the end of the open season of 1908. a Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull... Survey No. 259,1905, pp. 19-24. Moffit, F. H., Gold mining.in Seward Peninsula: Bull. No. 284,190G,... pp. 126-144. Smith, P. S., Gold fields of the Solomon and Niukluk River basins: Idem, pp. 140-150. Smith... Hess, F. .L., Smith, P. S., and Brooks, A. H., Gold placers of .parts of Seward Peninsula: Bull. No...251-207. Knopf, A., Mineral deposits of the Lost River and Brooks Mountain region: Idem, pp. 268-271. Knopf
Report (volume)
Geology of the ^Imuruk Lake Area ; Seward Peninsula Alaska * By D. M. HOPKINS \ CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL...drift---.._______________.____..____.._____ Nome River glaciation__________________________________ Salmon...hy----------------------------J_------_--__--_-Kugruk volcanics-------------------------------------Imuruk..._______________-_________ _____________'___._______ Gold placers._.__-___-_-_-_--_---__-_-.-------------_--------Lignite...of the canyon of the Kugruk River_________ 10. Spheroidal weathering in Kugruk volcanics_.-___-__------_
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INTRODUCTION This report lists the streamflow stations in Alaska for which records have been or are to be published...Geological Survey. Basic data on surface-water supply of Alaska have been published in bulletins or water-supply...beginning in 1961, the Alaska district issues annually a report streamflow records for Alaska. WSP 1640 1720...the head of the main stream b7 use of "(head of River)" or that the name of the main stream has changed...changed by use of 11 (continuation of _____ River)." 1 2 STATION NUMBER As an added means of identification
Report (issue)
of Surface-Water Records to September 30, 1967 Alaska GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 585 0 Index of...of Surface-Water Records to September 30, 1967 Alaska By H. P. Eisenhuth GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington...1967 Alaska By H. P. Eisenhuth INTRODUCTION This report lists the streamflow stations in Alaska for which...Circular 516. Basic data on surface-water supply of Alaska have been published in bulletins or water-sup1ly...1961, th~ Alaska district issues a report annually containing streamflow records for Alaska, In addition
Report (issue)
MINING ON SEWARD PENINSULA. By GEORGE L. HARKINGTON. PLACER MINING. SUMMARY OP MINING CONDITIONS. During...Seward Peninsula were generally favorable for placer mining until the later part of September and the first...dredges and a few of the larger plants continuing mining after that date and most of the latter working...labor. Gold, tin, and platinum were recovered through some of the various methods of placer mining. No information...in previous years as a by-product of placer mining for gold. Difficulty had been experienced in marketing
Report (issue)
OF SURFACE-WATER RECORDS TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 ALASKA ~OPERTY Of: U. S. GECJLCCICAL p U 8 Ll C II...INDEX OF SURFACE-WATER RECORDS TO SEPTEMBER 30,1955 ALASKA By E. G. Bailey Washington, D. C., 1956 INDEX... INDEX OF SURFACE-WATER RECORDS TO SEPTEMBER 30,1955 ALASKA By E. G. Bailey EXPLANATION This index lists...lists the streamflow and reservoir stations in Alaska for which records have been or are to be published in...area (sq mi) Gaging station Southeastern Alaska Davis River near Hyder (at Portland Canal) ...••••••
Report (issue)
PLACER MINING ON SEW.ARD PENINSULA. By THEODORE CHAPIN. INTRODUCTION. The placer-mining industry...suffered a general depression in 1913. The value of the gold produced is estimated to be $2,5001000; in 1912...large part to the drought which affected every mining district of the peninsula to a greater or le!'!S extent...The past tendency to ascribe any reduction in the gold output of Seward Peninsula to a lack of rain may...many of the creeks which usually supply water for mining were absolutely dry, and others were low. DREDGING
Report (issue)
of which over $80,000,000 *is the value of the gold won from placer mines. Lode prospecting began soon...given to the mining of stibnite-bearing lodes, but it soon subsided. The Big Hurrah quartz mine is the only...only lode-gold producer that was opened up on any considerable scale, and this mine was operated only...been done at the Lost River tin mine, the Kougarok silver-lead property, and the gold lodes near Bluff, but...is the silver-lead deposit at Omalik in the Fish River basin, which was opened up and from which some ore
Report (issue)
December 31, 1 963 Alaska Index of Surface-Water Records to December 31, 1963 Alaska By H. P. Eisenhuth...1963 Alaska By H. P. Eisenhuth INTRODUCTION This report lists the streamflow stations in Alaska for which...Circular 396. Basic data on surface-water supply of Alaska have been published in bulletins or water-supply...1961, the Alaska district issues a report annually containing streamflow records for Alaska. In addition...the head of the main stream by use of "(head of River)" and that the name of the main stream has changed
Report (issue)
MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1925 MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA IN 1925 By FRED H. MOFFIT INTRODUCTION...in the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, describing the mineral deposits, and presenting...prompt publication of notes on the more important mining developments of the year and of the principal results...investigations which may be of immediate use to the mining public. The papers included in this volume are...report on the geology and mineral resources of a district makes possible its publication with much greater
Report (issue)
HAKEINGTON. SUMMARY OF MINING OPERATIONS. t A resume of the history of tin mining in Alaska up to 1914 has been...found on Buhner Creek, a tributary of Anikovik River, in 1900, and there has been some production of...dredges were installed on Anikovik River in 1914 for the recovery of both gold and cassiterite but were operated...streams of the Nome district." Hess mentions 3 that Goldbottom Creek in the Nome district, Fred Gulch, north...Creek, Old Glory, and a " few other creeks of the Arctic slope east of Ears Mountain carry some stream tin
Report (volume)
Placer Deposits of Alaska By EDWARD H. COBB GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1374 An inventory of the...the placer mines and prospects of Alaska, their history and geologic setting UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...and method of presentation __ Definitions _-____ Alaska Peninsula region Aleutian Islands region ________...Inlet-Susitna River region Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow...Willow Creek district Yentna district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _
Report (volume)
Brooks.................................... 5 The mining industry in 1908, by Alfred H. Brooks............peat fuel in Alaska, by C. A. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mining in southeastern...southeastern Alaska, by C. ,V. Wright............................. 67 Copper mining and prospecting on Prince... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Gold on Prince William Sound, by U.S. Grant............resources of southwestern Alaska, by W. W. Atwood.................. 108 Mining in the· Kotsina, Chitina
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 933 4 * MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA REPORT ON PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN PAPERS...industry of Alaska in 1940, by Philip S. Smith (B) Geology of the Nutzotin Mountains, Alaska .: _ __ (C)...at the Independence mine, Alaska : _ (D) Reconnaissance of Porcupine Valley, Alaska ) . 1 103 201 219...PLATE 1. Map of Alaska, showing areas covered by selected available reports and maps of Alaska _ __ _ 1 In...View of the mine area from the Nabesna camp_____________ 176 8. Geologic map of the Nabesna mine area_____________
Report (issue)
THE MOOSE CREEK AREA, ALASKA BY GERALD A. WARING Mineral resources of Alaska, 1932 (Pages 155-166)...on'conglomerate beds and with the coal seams of the Premier mine.________________________________________________...Creek area.___________ FIGURE 6. Map of part of Alaska showing location of the Moose Creek area._._____...part of the Matanuska Valley, in south-central Alaska, about 165 miles by railroad north of the coast...of mineral resources in areas .tributary, to the Alaska Railroad, which is Government owned and operated
Report (issue)
Director °\ Bulletin 880 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA REPORT ON PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN 1935 ...separate publication] Page (A) Mineral industry of Alaska in 1935, by P. S. Smith (published in March 1937)...^ (B) Recent mineral developments in the Copper River region, by F. H. Moffit (published in February ...publications on Alaska..___0n back of plate 1 ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATB 1. Map of Alaska, showing areas...covered by selected available reports and maps of Alaska.._-______----___________ In pocket 2. Reconnaissance
Report (issue)
OF MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL, SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA (Text and tables to accompany Open-file Report...assessment of the mineral endowment of Seward Peninsula, Alaska. It is based in large part on information compiled...Peninsula is that part of mainland northwestern Alaska that lies west of longitude 161° between Eschscholtz...identify the mineral resources of this part of Alaska include studes by Lu, Heiner, and Harris (1968)...the mineral resource endowment of this part of Alaska but because our knowledge of Seward Peninsula mineral
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, DIKECTOB 4:4:2 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA REPORT ON PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN 1909 ...The mining industry in 1909, by Alfred H. Brooks........................... Page. 5 20 Alaska coal...Charles A. Davis................ 101 Mining in southeastern Alaska, by Adolph Knopf......................reconnaissance in southeastern Alaska, by John C. Hoyt. Mining in the Chitina district, by Fred H. Moffit............................... Mining and prospecting on Prince William Sound, in 1909, by U. S. Grant....
 
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