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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...-.-.-..----------------------------------.-----Mining properties. _._-------_-._-___.-------__-------------...--------Surface plant... ------_.-_--------------.------------Mine development. -____-_-__-_--_..-__------------_....205 IV CONTENTS Economic geology Continued Mining properties Continued Lucky Shot Continued Milling |
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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...quartz veins hosted by granitic rocks of the Willow Creek pluton. A geochronologic study of granitic rocks |
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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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| 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...mine_________________-___-_-_-____-___._-_--_______ Independence mine.________-_-__-_____--____-_-____---_-______...mine__---______-__-_____---_-------_---_----------__ Snowbird mine.__________________________-____-__-__-_-__--._-Schroff-O'Neil |
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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...____ FIGURE 8. Sketch map of Alaska showing location of Willow Creek district-..-...-..-....-----------_-------_-- |
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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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| 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 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...Quartz Mining Co............................... Mine of Gold Bullion Mining Co.......................... |
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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...Physiographic development____. _. _________ _________ Matanuska Valley_______--___ _ _ _ __________ Talkeetna... Areal distribution______________._______.._ Matanuska field _________________________ 40 40 40 41 ...___________"______ Coking qualities.__________________________ Mining conditions_____________________________ Gold ______________...Description of localities______________________ Willow Creek________________________.___ Nelchina River____________ |
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| SMITH, DIEECTOB GEOLOGY OF THE BERBERS BAY REGION ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING............................................. 30 Sericite.................................................38 Ivanhoe mine.......................................................... 38 Horrible mine..............39 Bear mine. ............................................................ 39 Kensington mine........... 40 Eureka mine. .............................................. ^.......... 42 Comet mine........... |
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| PAPER 70 J..,l ' THE MOUNT· McKINLEY REGION, ALASKA . BY ALFRED H. BROOKS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE..... _.... _...... __ .... _.. ______ . _.... _ Susitna lowland ..... __ ~ __ . _... ~ _.. ___ . _.. _...• ~ .... _. ___ . _............... ~ _... ___ _ Alaska Range __ . _• _....... ~ .. _............ ~ .....____ ..... __ . _ Outline of geology of central Alaska .. ___ . _. _. ____ .. ___ . _. _. __ .. _______........ -;, ...... _... ~. Schistose rocks of Willow Creek basin ......... _...... _..... _....... _.. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 platinum recovered from the placers of Dime Creek. Basic igneous rocks occur in the vicinity of these...deposits, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. (in preparation). 163 164 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1920 |
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| MOOSE PASS-HOPE DISTRICT KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA BY RALPH TUCK Investigations in Alaska Railroad belt...and industries. ..._. ... ._.__ ...... 474 Mining conditions. _________ __-.._._ ___.____________-...._. _ .. _____ .._.__.--___ .. History of lode mining _ ..._._.....__..-___._-.....____.._ General character...________________________________ Future of the district._____________________________________ Mines and...prospects__._-_________-________________________ Palmer Creek.________________________________________ Hirshey |
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| Metalliferous Lode Deposits and Placer Districts of Alaska By WARREN j. NOKLEBERG, THOMAS K. BUNDTZEN, HENRY...metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786 Bibliography...No.: 119.3:1786 1. Placer deposits-Alaska. 2. Ore deposits-Alaska. I. Nokleberg, Warren j. II. Series...COVER Mill buildings at Kennecott, Alaska. The Kennecott district Cu-Ag mines in the Wrangell Mountains...deposit description for Kennecott district (number 30 for southern Alaska). Copyrighted drawing used by permission |
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| Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska By HENRY C. BERG and EDWARD H. COBB . G E O L O G I C A L S...A n inventory of the mines and )- grosfiects of Alaska and their ' f geologic settings UNITED STATES...acknowledgments--- - - - - - ----- - - - -- - -- 4 Alaska Peninsula region- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Cook Inlet-Susitna River region- - - - - - - - - - - _ --- - - - -...- - - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - 16 Redoubt district--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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| LODE MINING IN THE FAIRBANKS DISTRICT. By J. B. MEIITIE, Jr. INTRODUCTION. Gold lode mining in the Fairbanks...Fairbanks district continued in 1916, with a small production. The cost of power and supplies has increased...available the coal resources of the Nenana and Matanuska coal fields, should help materially. A central...mines, however, were operated in the Fairbanks district in 1916, producing gold valued at nearly $40,000...yearly production of lode gold and silver in the district since 1910, when the lodes were just beginning |
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| developed, the deposit will be mined by underground mining methods. The deposit is part of lands owned by...placer gold mine operations on the Eureka and Mary's bench depositsin the Koyukuk-Nolan district of northern...northern Alaska. The center nugget weighs 41.35 ounces (1,286 grams) and is unofficially the tenth largest...by Tom Bundtzen) Top right: The Valdez Creek placer gold mine, 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Cantwell...Cantwell, has been Alaska's largest gold mine for ten of the last eleven years, and it is one of the largest |
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| separate publication ) (A) Mineral industry of Alaska in 1936, by P. S. Smith (published in March 1938)...--------------------_1 (B) 'The Valdez Creek mining district in 1936, by Ralph Tuck (published in March...publications on Alaska. _ _ _ _ _ On back of plate 1 ILLUSTRATIONS Page PLATE 1. Map of Alaska, showing areas...and maps of Alaska.___________________________ In pocket 2. Sketch map of Fortymile district, showing location...gold placer-mining operations.____--__-__-______-_-__--_---_160 3. Sketch map of Eagle district, showing |
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| RUBY-KUSKOKWIM REGION ALASKA BY J. B. MERTIE, Jr. Mineral resources of Alaska, 1933 (Pages 115-245)...________-_______-__-____---__-_____--__________-___ Ruby district._______-___-____--._-_--.-__---_--__._______ Ruby...area____-______.__--_-___--__-_-___-_________ 145 Long Creek and Bear Gulch..____________________ Fifth of July...______________________ Greenstone Creek.._______._________._._-_._.___._ Monument Creek.______________________________..._______ Swift and Willow Creeks...__.._..___.__________ Meketchum Creek._______________________________ |
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| 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...Seward Peninsula-Kobuk region ............ York district .................. Lost River area ................ Uranium possibilities of the York district . Nome district .................. . Uranium- possibilities...possibilities ........... Council district ................ Uranium possibilities- ........... Pairhaven and |
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| 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...area are the Alaska Range and the Tanana Flats. The Alaska Range in this, part of Alaska trends round...region, crosses Cantwell River just south of Healy Creek, and extends northeastward to the south of the Bonnifield...occupy large areas in the northern foothills of the Alaska Range. They were observed throughout the area between |
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| mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. W ' - - V V^ ' VL 1 PI Cl°«5 C»35 ....i-S , -SSK .S' //^.v, S"'--«^ Creek , (3033 .C.049 CM19 C"55 | I i 3 sjL O ...occurrences in the Circle 1 :250, 000-scale quadrangle, Alaska C/) c/} cd . i |_ _ Q cd ^ '" * '' ' tf/...455-5159 Alaska <^ \ ^ »\ . £ ^jpjL^ , . °%^^^% ^^....^^ Location of map area in Alaska /^^^^^^\ ...j mm. mm. m !*^ science for a changing world Alaska Resource Data File CI001 Site name(s): 88 Group |
