Tyone Creek Mine, Bethel Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Tyone Creek Mine | Mine |
Bethel Mining District | Mining District |
Bethel Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
59° 33' 0'' North , 161° 19' 48'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Goodnews Bay | 256 (2017) | 50.1km |
Mindat Locality ID:
200471
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:200471:9
GUID (UUID V4):
67f1e7c6-1838-4141-b587-224b43a42a50
Location: Tyone Creek is a north tributary to Keno Creek, a north tributary of Arolik River. It is a short stream, separated from the drainage of Bessie Creek by a low saddle at an elevation of about 425 feet. The map site is on Tyone Creek, at the border of sections 22 and 27, T 7 S, R 71 W, of the Seward Meridian. This is locality 9 of Hoare and Cobb (1977) and of Cobb and Condon (1972).
Geology: Hoare and Coonrad (1961) showed this location as a placer mining locality. Additional information about the deposit is not available. The uplands in this drainage are underlain by Precambrian crystalline rocks (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Workings: Some small surface workings are assumed to be present at this locality.
Age: Quaternary.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: Undetermined
Deposit Model: Placer Au-PGE (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
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Link to USGS - Alaska: | GO035 |
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- Farewell-Kilbuck DomainDomain
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