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Cassiterite from
Goldbottom Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Goldbottom Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:581328
Long-form Identifier:1:3:581328:5
GUID (UUID V4):fed05b73-fa52-4d66-92da-e73d9578051a
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Fred Creek Mine (or Fred Gulch--placer), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Aurora Prospect, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Rocky Mountain Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Sledge Creek Prospect, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Glacier Creek Mine (includes Bonanza and Bergstrom Gulches), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) Monument Creek; Poorman Bench Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
18.9km (11.7 miles) Galena Prospect, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Nome mining district Mines, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Dexter Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Willow Creek Mine, Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
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...description and accuracy: This location is on Idaho Creek, 3,000 to 4,500 feet north of its mouth on the Kuzitrin...Kuzitrin River, and 10,500 feet east of the Nome-Taylor road. It is locality 46 of Cobb (1972; MF 417)
Report (issue)
placers of the ancient beach about 3 miles north of Nome. Although extensions of this beach have been uncovered...field season of 1907. 6 Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 259, 1905, pp...Mofflt, F. H., Gold mining in Seward Peninsula: Bull. No. 284, 1906, pp. 132141; The Nome region : Bull. No...146-156; Geology and mineral resources of Iron Creek: Bull. No. 314, 1907, pp. 157-163. Brooks, A. H...first discovered, between Snake and Nome rivers.- But, as the mining of placers goes on with much rapidity
Report (issue)
LODE MINING AND PROSPECTING ON SEWARD PENINSULA. By J. B. MERTIE, Jr. INTRODUCTION. The lodes of Seward...most part undeveloped. The Big Hurrah mine, in the Solomon district, produced gold from 1903 to 1907 but...been made from the Sliscovich mine, on Manila Creek, in the Nome district, but these were more in the nature...development is still in the stage of prospecting. Lode mining of some of the semiprecious and base metals, however...GOLD. SLISCOVICH. The Sliscovich mine, near the head of Manila Creek, has been described in some detail
Report (issue)
ON AN APPRAISAL OF THE URANIUM POSSIBILITIES OF ALASKA* By Helmuth Wedow9 Max G 0 White, and Robert M0...authors 7 opinions of the uranium possibilities of Alaska through March 1951 S the date of the completion...Peninsula-Kobuk region ............ York district .................. Lost River area .............. Brooks Mountain...... Uranium possibilities of the York district . Nome district .................. . Uranium- possibilities...possibilities ........... Council district ................ Uranium possibilities- ........... Pairhaven and
Report (issue)
given to the mining of stibnite-bearing lodes, but it soon subsided. The Big Hurrah quartz mine is the only...was opened up on any considerable scale, and this mine was operated only from 1903 to 1908 and then not...underground work has been done at the Lost River tin mine, the Kougarok silver-lead property, and the gold...the output from those few has been small. In the area of the York Mountains the relation of the mineralization...the platinum recovered from the placers of Dime Creek. Basic igneous rocks occur in the vicinity of these
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 ________...Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district...district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _ Chistochina district Nelchina
Report (volume)
PLACERS OF PARTS OF SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA INCLUDING THE NOME, COUNCIL, KOUGAROK, PORT CLARENCE, AND...H. BROOKS__________________ DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY, BY ALFRED H. BROOKS_____ Foreword __...13 J9 24 28 Growth of mining from 1902 to 1904___________________ 31 Mining developments in 1905-6_...Kuzitrin formation___________.______________.._ 69 Nome group______________________________ 70 General ...Concentrated deposits_______________________ 118 Cassiterite and galena bearing lodes __.___^_______ 120 Distribution
Report (issue)
PLACER MINING ON SEW.ARD PENINSULA. By THEODORE CHAPIN. INTRODUCTION. The placer-mining industry...large part to the drought which affected every mining district of the peninsula to a greater or le!'!S extent...many of the creeks which usually supply water for mining were absolutely dry, and others were low. DREDGING...affected by scarcity of water than other fonns of mining, but even the dredge operations were hampered,...Dredging has become an established method in the mining industry of Seward Peninsula. 1n 1913 there were
Report (issue)
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...there has been some production of cassiterite. from placer operations in the York region since 1902. In...In 1911 a dredge was installed on Buck Creek which has been in operation each season since. Two dredges...River in 1914 for the recovery of both gold and cassiterite but were operated only during that and the following
Report (issue)
INTRODUCTION. The northern foothills of the Alaska Range have been widely traversed by prospectors...as a permanent supply point. In 1903 gold-placer mining commenced in the Bonnifield country, about 60 miles...Fairbanks and 30 miles north of Mount McKinley, was an area of considerable activity. These regions had produced...entire area are the Alaska Range and the Tanana Flats. The Alaska Range in this, part of Alaska trends...foothills to Tanana River. They have a width in the area under consideration of about 30 miles. They widen
Report (volume)
PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS OF MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA IN 1905 By ALFRED H. BROOKS AND OTHERS WASHINGTON.................................... Southeastern Alaska................................................................................... Southwestern Alaska............................................................................................ THE MINING INDUSTRY IN 1905, by Alfred H. Brooks.......................................... Auriferous lode mining...............................................
Report (volume)
MOLYBDENUM MINERALS IN ALASKA BY PHILIP S. SMITH Mineral resources of Alaska, 1939 (Pages 161-207) ...molybdenum minerals in Alaska deposits.____________ 163 Description of Alaska occurrences.______-___..._____________________________ 163 Southeastern Alaska.__________________________________________ 165...16& Copper Mountain area.________________________________ 165' Kasaan Peninsula area.________________________________... 166> Baker Island area._____-__-_-____-__-_----__-___-__--166' Noyes Island area.____________________________________
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director Bulletin 649 ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF ALASKA BY ALFRED H. BROOKS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING................................................. Mining developments and production........................................ 1............... Fairbanks district. ................................................................................... Fredericks mine.......................................... Spaulding............ Eldorado Creek Mining Co ................................ Newsboy mine....................
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....
Report (issue)
forth is unnecessary. In trying to cover so large an area as the southern part of Seward Peninsula, the writer...open season of 1908. a Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 259,1905, pp...Bull. No. 284,190G, pp. 132-141. Moflit, F. H., The Nome region: Bull. No. 314,1907, pp. 126-144. Smith,...Smith, P. S., Geology and mineral resources of Iron Creek: Idem, pp. 157-103. Brooks, A. H., The Kougarok...No. 358,1908. 267 268 MINEBAL EESOUEGES OF ALASKA, 1908. These estimates are based on statements
Report (issue)
MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1920. By ALFRED H. BROOKS and others. PREFACE. By ALFRED H. BROOKS. I )...investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska and treating of the mining industry of the Territory, especially...particular district should therefore procure a copy of the complete report on that district as soon as...data. Those who have thus aided include the many mine operators who have made reports on production as...692, 712, and 714. 5 6 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1920. Director and other officers of the United
Report (issue)
Mendenhall, Director Bulletin 917 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA REPORT ON PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN 1938 PAPERS...advance publication:] Page (A) Mineral industry of Alaska in 1938, by Philip S. Smith...-_._.__-_. (B) Geology...Geology of the upper Tetling River district, Alaska, by Fred H. Moffit____-._---...I-..-..---.-....--...production from Alaska, by Philip S. Smith._________ (D) Tertiary deposits of the Eagle-Circle district, Alaska...PLATE 1. Map of Alaska, showing areas covered by selected available reports and maps of Alaska._________________________
Report (volume)
D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA BY MARCUS BAKER SEC03ST3D EIDITIOIT PKEPAHE...established; old mining fields have been developed and new ones discovered and prospected; mining camps of that...PEEFACE. the same as names met at every turn in the mining regions of the West. The first edition of this-...Survey. CHARLES S. SLOANE, Secretary, Bureau of the Census. Maj. WILLIAM D. BEACH, General Staff, War Department...years ago determined to prepare a dictionary of Alaska geographic names and appointed a committee which
Report (issue)
mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. Distribution of mineral occurrences in the Solomon...Solomon l:250,000-scale quadrangle, western Alaska This and related reports are accessible through the...Travis Hudson Sequim, WA Location of map are* in Alaska This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed...the U.S. Government. OPEN-FILE REPORT 99-573 Alaska Resource Data File SO001 Site name(s): Cape Darby...pluton. Alteration: Age of mineralization: Page 2 Alaska Resource Data File SO001 Mid-Cretaceous?; K/Ar
Report (issue)
occurrences in the Wiseman 1° by 3° Quadrangle, Alaska by James D. Bliss*, William P. Brosge , John... U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA. 2. Alaska Division of Mines and Geology, Fairbanks, AK. ...areas. GOLD PLACERS Gold placers are identified by AREA OR BASIN NUMBER, is used in both the compilation...the Wiseman quadrangle are part of the Koyukuk District, which includes the drainage basins of the Koyukuk...Rivers (Cobb, 1973, p. 156, fig. 52). The Koyukuk District also includes substantial areas outside of the
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...resources of southwestern Alaska, by W. W. Atwood.................. 108 Mining in the· Kotsina, Chitina...Chitina, Chistochina, and Valdez Creek regions, by F. H. l\1offit.........................................
Report (issue)
RUBY-KUSKOKWIM REGION ALASKA BY J. B. MERTIE, Jr. Mineral resources of Alaska, 1933 (Pages 115-245)...________-___ Ruby district._______-___-____--._-_--.-__---_--__._______ Ruby area.______-_____--_---...area____-______.__--_-___--__-_-___-_________ 145 Long Creek and Bear Gulch..____________________ Fifth of July...______________________ Greenstone Creek.._______._________._._-_._.___._ Monument Creek.______________________________...Meketchum Creek._______________________________ Trail Creek____.________________________ Flint Creek and tributaries
 
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