Black River Occurrence, Iditarod District, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska, USA
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Geology: This placer occurrence is based on a report that George Fredericks, a trader at Georgetown on the Kuskokwim River, was given by an unidentified Athabascan Indian in 1914. The Indian said that placer gold had been found on the Black River about 10 miles from its mouth by Russian explorers in 1844 (Brown, 1983; Berry, 1973). However, there is no mention of such a discovery in the journals of the Russian explorer Lieutenant Zagoskin who visited this region about this time (Michael, 1967) and there is no other information about the deposit.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Placer Au deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
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References
Berry, M.J., 1973, A history of mining on the Kenai Peninsula: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 214 p. Brown, C.M., 1983, Alaska's Kuskokwim River region, a history: U. S. Bureau of Land Management Draft History Summary, 141 p. Michael, H.N., editor, 1976, Lieutenant Zagoskin's Travels in Russian America, 1842-1844: Arctic Institute of North America Anthropology of the North Series No. 7, University of Toronto Press, 358 p.