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| The Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program Background Information to Accompany Mineral-Resource and...Maps of the Anchorage Quadrangle, South-Central Alaska V .U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1094 Cover...G.K. Gilbert and other members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition after they had named many of the surrounding...geographic dictionary of Alaska. Photograph by G.R. Winkler, July 14, 1983. The Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment...Maps of the Anchorage Quadrangle, South-Central Alaska By D.J. MADDEN-McGUIRE and G.R. WINKLER U.S. GEOLOGICAL |
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| Bulletin 849 C BY JAMES C. RAY Investigations in Alaska Railroad belt, 1931 (Pages 165-229) UNITED STATES...______.__..._..._.__ Special factors affecting mining. ____________________________________ Open season..._ . ---------_----_-__---------___-_---_--.-_-.Quartz diorite__ ___---_-----___-__.---_-------------_-...-.-.-..----------------------------------.-----Mining properties. _._-------_-._-___.-------__-------------...--------Surface plant... ------_.-_--------------.------------Mine development. -____-_-__-_--_..-__------------_. |
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| RECONNAISSANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA, 1947-49 By Robert M. Moxham and Arthur E. Nelson...RECONNAISSANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA, 1947-49 Part 1. Reconnaissance for radioactive...south-central Alaska during 1947 By R. M. Moxham Part 2. Radioactive pegmatite minerals in the Willow Creek mining...mining district By R. M. Moxham and A. E. Nelson Part 3. Radioactive pegmatite minerals in the Yakataga...in areas adjacent to highways in south-central Alaska during 1947, by R. M. Moxham Abstract ........ |
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| Ore Formation in the Willow Creek Gold District, Talkeetna Mountains, Southern Alaska* Stephen S. Harlan...4 U.S. 5 State Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4626 Key Laboratory of Geological Processes...Abstract The Willow Creek mining district was the third-largest lode gold district in Alaska in the 20th...t of gold from associated placer deposits. The district is located in the southern Talkeetna Mountains...widespread mineralized quartz veins hosted by granitic rocks of the Willow Creek pluton. A geochronologic |
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| GOLD LODE MINING IN THE WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT. By STEPHEN R. CAPPS. INTRODUCTION. Gold mining in the Willow...Willow Creek district in 1917 was confined to the exploitation of the quartz lodes, from which almost...gold recovered from this area was gained by placer mining, the workable placers were soon exhausted, and...mines. Two of these mines, the Gold Bullion and the Alaska Free Gold, have been in operation for many years...produced the bulk of the output of the district. The Independence mine, which has for years been a producer |
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| GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR 607 THE WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT ALASKA BY STEPHEN R. CAPPS WASHINGTON GOVEKNMENT...................................... History of mining.......................................................... Willow Creek.l.................................................... Fishhook Creek............... Mine of Alaska Free Gold Mining Co................................ Mine of Alaska Gold Quartz Mining............. Mine of Gold Bullion Mining Co..................................... Mabel mine........... |
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| MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MATANUSKA COAL FIELDS. By THEODORE CHAPIN. INTRODUCTION. The only coal-mining...coal-mining activity in the Matanuska Valley in 1919 was the working of the Government-operated mines at Eska...Eska and Chickaloon by the Alaska Engineering Commission in charge of Sumner S. Smith, resident engineer...geology and developments recently published.1 ESKA MINE. The principal operations were at Eska, where an...perpendicular to the creek, which has cut across the beds and has exposed a natural section. The mining by the Alaska |
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| mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. Distribution of mineral occurrences in the Anchorage...Anchorage 1:250,000-scale quadrangle, southcentral Alaska This and related reports are accessible through...REPORT 98-599 ZUSGS science for a changing world Alaska Resource Data File INSET MAP 1 T^'-^-r \ _ -...UAN°22ANOe Alaska Resource Data File AN001 Site name(s): Independence Site type: Mine ARDFno.: AN001...accuracy: West of Fishhook Creek, marked with an adit symbol and labeled 'Independence Mine' on the Anchorage |
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| GOLD MINING IN THE WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT. By STEPHEN R. CAPPS. INTRODUCTION. Mining in the Willow Creek...Creek district was continued in 1915 on about the same scale as in the preceding year. The output was derived...edge of this district, prospecting was active, and plans are under way for active mining on several properties...properties. A report on the Willow Creek district, describing the developments up to the fall of 1913...1915, the writer spent about a week in the Willow Creek district, and visited all the working mines and many |
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| 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...arrival of the first boat until June 25. Ditch and creek waters froze October 3, and the first 6 inches of |
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| COAL IN THE MOOSE CREEK AREA, ALASKA BY GERALD A. WARING Mineral resources of Alaska, 1932 (Pages 155-166)...166 ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 6. Map of the Moose Creek area, showing geology, coal mines, and drill holes______...holes in the Moose Creek area__________ 8. Logs of diamond-drill holes in the Moose Creek area correlated...on'conglomerate beds and with the coal seams of the Premier mine.________________________________________________...Moose Creek area.___________ FIGURE 6. Map of part of Alaska showing location of the Moose Creek area |
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| INVESTIGATIONS IN THE ALASKA RAILROAD BELT, 1931 BY S. R. CAPPS Mineral resources of Alaska, 1931 (Pages 119-135)...basin____________________________________ Moose Pass-Hope district, Kenai Peninsula._____________________ Girdwood..._____________ Willow Creek district____________.-_-_-________..._________ Valdez Creek district_____...Eielson district ________________________________________ Eureka and vicinity, Kantishna district._____-___-_--___..._____-___-_--___ _______Fairbanks district.___________________________________________ 119 119 121 121 122 |
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| Geology and -Ore Deposits of the : Willow Creek Mining District, Alaska GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1004... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Willow Creek Mining District, Alaska By RICHARD G. RAY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...and economic geology of a lode gold mining district in southern Alaska, with particular emphasis on the... 13 Quartz diorite_-_________________-_---_-____----_---_-_---_ 13 Minerals of the quartz diorite...clase feldspar._______________________________ Quartz ___________._..______...______.__..___..____ Biotite-1_ |
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| OF TBE WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT. By S. R. CAPPS. . INTRODUCTION. The term Willow Creek district is commonly...come to be applied not only to the basin of Willow Creek, which drains most of the western por tion...the mountainous portion of the basin of Little Susitna. River, and it is in this more general sense that...report on the ge0logy and mineral resources of the district. In 1898 G. H. Eldridge and Robert Muldrow,1 of...the United States Geological Survey, ascended Susitna River and crossed the divide to the head of Nenaua |
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| INTRODUCTION. Eleven parties were engaged during 1917 in Alaska surveys and investigations. The length of the field...Service, stream gaging was continued in southeastern Alaska. In 1917 the entrance of the United States into...the construction of the Government railroad in Alaska gave more than ordinary importance to the collection...geographically, two parties worked in southeastern Alaska, two on Prince William Sound, and one in the region...Government railroad. 3 4 MINERAL EESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1917. The following tables show the allotments |
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| NOTES ON MINING IN SEWARD PENINSULA. By PHILIP S. SMITH. INTRODUCTION. No party from the Geological...During that time he obtained some notes on the mining industry, and these, supplemented by reports in...the amount of winter mining; second, a general decrease in the number of mining operations except dredging;...development of the ancient beaches at Nome winter mining was important, for labor was cheap, the physical...sluicing in the summer) and consequently this form of mining has decreased. It is estimated that the winter |
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| 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...recovered through some of the various methods of placer mining. No information was ob tamed regarding the saving...as in previous years as a by-product of placer mining for gold. Difficulty had been experienced in marketing |
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| H. MANNING. Director I HE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United States Mine Inspector for Alaska ENGINEERING \Y* WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...MINES H. MANNING. Director THE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United Stales Mine Inspector for Alaska WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1917 ...prohibits the CONTENTS. Page. Introduction New gold-mining districts Mineral production Placer gold Lode gold |
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| MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE REGION TRAVERSED BY THE ALASKA RAILROAD. By STEPHEN R. CAPPS. INTRODUCTION. ...bridge across Tanana Kiver, in March, 1923, the Alaska Railroad, begun in 1915, was opened for direct...Pacific coast, and Fairbanks, in the heart of central Alaska, a distance of 468 miles (fig. 1). Rarely has ...showing location of the region traversed by the Alaska Railroad. the construction of a railroad of this...in transporting pas73 74 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1922. sengers and freight to the basins of these |
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| GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE IN THE MATANUSKA AND TALKEETNA BASINS ALASKA BY SIDNEY PAIGE AND ADOLPH KNOPF..._ Fossils and age_____________________________ Quartz diorite _________________ ______________ Distribution...Physiographic development____. _. _________ _________ Matanuska Valley_______--___ _ _ _ __________ Talkeetna... Areal distribution______________._______.._ Matanuska field _________________________ 40 40 40 41 ...___________"______ Coking qualities.__________________________ Mining conditions_____________________________ Gold ______________ |
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| DEPOSITION AT THE INDEPENDENCE MINE, ALASKA BY WALTER CLERICUS STOLL Mineral resources of Alaska, 1940 (Pages...___________________-_-__---_- __-_ 202 203 Independence vein_________________________________________________...of workings in northern part of Independence mine, Willow Creek district......_.----------.----_-_---.---...vein in Independence mine_____.______________________________________ 15. Map of Independence mine showing...showing .distribution of quartz.... 16. Banded quartz .vein.. ____________________________________ 17. Large |
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| MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1914. By ALFRED H. BROOKS and others. PREFACE. By ALFRED H. BROOKS. This...resources during 1914 and of the status of the mining industry in the Territory. It is the eleventh of...particular district are therefore urged to procure a copy of the complete report on that district as soon...statistical data is impaired by the fact that some of the mine operators, notably the placer miners, fail to report...production of many of the districts or to summarize the mining development. There are now nearly 450 operators |
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| general way the 1 Hcrron, J. S., Explorations in Alaska, 1899: War Dept., Adjt. General's Office, No. 31...1-77, maps, 1901. 211 212 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1915. Yukon-Kuskokwim divide. A pack train of...and then in a general southerly direction to the Alaska Range. The drainage of the upland area northeast...of large southerly tributaries that head in the Alaska Range. It is said to be navigable for launches...been shown hitherto on the maps of this part of Alaska and has been known only to the natives and a very |
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| HAKEINGTON. SUMMARY OF MINING OPERATIONS. t A resume of the history of tin mining in Alaska up to 1914 has been...his report. Stream tin was first found on Buhner Creek, a tributary of Anikovik River, in 1900, and there...since 1902. In 1911 a dredge was installed on Buck Creek which has been in operation each season since. Two...following season. A second dredge was installed on Buck Creek in 1915 and has worked each summer since that date...hull in 1916 and installed on a dredge on Swanson Creek, a tributary of Agiapuk Eiver. The hull was carried |
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| MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1912. By ALFRED H. BROOKS and others. PREFACE. By ALFRED H. BROOKS. f~...published annually, treating of the progress of mining in Alaska and summarizing the results achieved during...particular district are therefore urged to procure a copy of the complete report on that district as soon...previously issued, summarizes the condition of the mining industry and gives statistics of mineral production...as condensed statements of the progress of the mining industry for the years which they cover. The fund |
