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| ........................................ Cape Mountain ...................................................................................... Brooks Mountain............................................................................................ Ear Mountain...............................................of Seward Peninsula, showing position of York region, Alaska........................................................... 8 II. Topographic map of York region................................. . 12 III. Valley |
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| GEOLOGY OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT POINTING...____ Slates near York_____- _____ _ __ __ Port Clarence limestone-- . 5 7 S 9 10 10 10 12 Limestone...________ ___ Lodes __________________ _____ ___ Ear Mountain________..__________.-_ __ : Introduction..._ Orbicular contact metamorphism___________ Cassiterite prospects________________________ Lodes ___________________..._ Seaming of the limestone_________________ Cassiterite and wolframite quartz veins__________ JMetasomatic |
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| SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA By C. L. Sainsbury...-----Lost River -Brooks Mountain area .. _ King River _______________________ Area east of Tin Creek.---...---.-------Ear Mountain _______________--_--Cape Mountain _________----_-_--__ Potato Mountain ________--___----_Black...________--___----_Black Mountain..-----------------Suggestions for prospecting ----------Selected bibliography...Figure 1. Map of the western Seward Peninsula, Alaska, showing areas of known and potential beryllium |
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| ............................................... Nome series ..................................................................................... Port Clarence limestone .............................................................................. Port Clarence coastal plain ................................Plateau ...........................................:York Plateau ..................................................................... 44 46 Port Clarence and York Mountain region ........................... |
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| Director Bulletin 733 GEOLOGY OF THE YORK TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY EDWARD STEIDTMANN AND S. H. CATHCART...of report_ Acknowledgments Geography Location and area _ Topography _____ ___ . Drainage________-___ a...Summary of geologic history _ _ ______ Slate of the York region __________________________ General characteristics..._ _ Limestone of the York Mountains _________________ Limestone of Cape Mountain _________________ _ Structural...Mineralogy ________________.__________________ Lost River area ____________ __________________ Geographic feat |
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| 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...first discovered, between Snake and Nome rivers.- But, as the mining of placers goes on with much rapidity...had some effect in reducing the output of the district. One of these minor causes was the labor trouble |
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| 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 |
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| TIN MINING IN ALASKA. By HENRY M. EAKIN. INTRODUCTION. The first discovery of stream tin in Alaska was...Geological Survey in 1900 on Buhner Creek, in the York district, which occupies the western extremity of Seward...finding commercial bodies of tin in this part of Alaska, and in 1901 and 1902 considerable prospecting...together. Lode tin was first discovered at Cape Mountain in July, 1902, by W. C. J. Bartels. The following...Lost River, in the eastern part of the York district.2 Lode mining has been carried on to a greater or less |
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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...has been some production of cassiterite. from placer operations in the York region since 1902. In 1911...River in 1914 for the recovery of both gold and cassiterite but were operated only during that and the following...streams of the Nome district." Hess mentions 3 that Goldbottom Creek in the Nome district, Fred Gulch,...of Ears Mountain carry some stream tin." Cassiterite lodes were discovered at Cape Mountain in 1902 and |
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| 24 August 2017 By FRANK H. WASKEY Dillingham, Alaska Eighteen Hundred & Ninety-Seven saw the Press...world heralding the arrival at that then somnolent port of the "Ton of Gold" from the Klondike. The spring...1898 also saw the beginning of placer mining near Nome, Alaska; 1899's summer came and there were hundreds...Beach and its easy wealth brought in 1900 the great Nome rush. During June of that fabled year more than...miners landed on that quartz-streaked shore of Alaska. Many of those thousands, expressing their disappointment |
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| Deposits of the Lost River and Mount Ear Ore Field, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, United States S. M. Aleksandrov...tungsten, beryllium, and fluorite deposits of the York Range, Seward Peninsula, represent the continuation...of dolomites and limestones of the Paleozoic Port Clarence Formation at the contact with the Mesozoic leuco... borosilicates, and scheelite, formation of cassiterite and wol rframite in the greisenized granites...results of studying the skarns and ores of the Alaska deposits are of great applied and scientific significance |
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| Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska GEOLOGICAL O GC oc O es...Ore Deposits of the Central York Mountains, Western Seward Peninsula, Alaska By C. L. SAINSBURY GEOLOGICAL...stratigraphy, petrology, and ore deposits of an area containing tin deposits and a new type of beryllium...rocks___________________________________________ Slate of the York region-____________________________________ Argillaceous...central York Mountains. 2. Diagram showing variation in oxides in igneaus rocks of the York Mountains |
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| RADIOACTIVITY INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA ABASKA, 1946 u.•. PUElLit.l I...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1946 By Robert M. Moxham and. Walter...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SERPENTINE-KOUGAROK AREA SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, 1946 By Robert M. Moxham and Walter...Location and extent of area . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . Physical conditions in the area. . . . . • . • ...and schist .....•.•.••....•••.......•....... Port Clarence limestone . . . . • . . • . • • • . . • . . |
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| OF SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA INCLUDING THE NOME, COUNCIL, KOUGAROK, PORT CLARENCE, AND GOODHOPE PRECINCTS...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_..._ 69 Nome group______________________________ 70 General description_____________________ 70 Port Clarence...schists of Fairhaven precinct_____ 79 Slates in the York region__________________ 79 Limestone near Pala |
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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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| KNOPF. XNTRODUCTORY. The known tin depositsof Alaska that promise some future commercialimportance are...parts of Alaska. At presentfour localitiesare beingprospected for tin. They are included in an area of 4o0...situated about•oo milesnorthwestof the city of Nome,the supplypoint of the region. In geographicorder...four localitiesare Ear Mountain, Buck Creek, Cape Mountain and Lost River. Ear Mountain occupiesan isolatedposition40...milesnorth of the others,which are groupedtogetherin the York region at the western end of the continent. The |
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| IRON-ORE DEPOSITS NEAR NOME. By HENRY M. EAKIN. INTRODUCTION. Considerable local interest has long...deposits of iron ore in an area that centers about 25 miles northwest of Nome. A day was spent at this...groups of claims are held in the iron-bearing district. Three of these the Mogul, Monarch, and Galena...general area. The Monarch group was reached easily in a day's travel on horseback from Nome, the route...MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1914. GEOLOGY. The bedrock of the iron-bearing area consists chiefly of |
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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............ York district .................. Lost River area .............. Brooks Mountain ................. Potato Mountain .............. Sar Mountain ............... Cape Mountain ............... Uranium...Uranium possibilities of the York district . Nome district .................. . Uranium- possibilities .. |
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| TIN RESOURCES OF ALASKA. By FRANK L. HESS. The peculiar deficiency of the United States in tin deposits...interest. Tin was first discovered in Alaska on Buhner Creek, Mar York, OH Seward Peninsula, in 1900. It...occurred here as stream tin, or rolled pebbles of cassiterite, and was found in sluicing for gold. The next...separated from Buhner Creek by a low divide. In 1903 cassiterite (tin oxide) was found in place in granite porphyry...limestones on Cassiterite Creek, a tributary of Lost River, about 100 miles northwest of Nome. Later, stream |
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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- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -...- - - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - 16 Redoubt district--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 Valdez Creek area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| INTRODUCTION. Eleven parties were engaged during 1917 in Alaska surveys and investigations. The length of the field...results of which can not be expressed in terms of area. About 1,050 square miles was covered by reconnaissance...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 |
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| L. HE~s~G - - Alaska 1909, 1910. 35 F r e i l i c h bedfirfe es ftir diese F r a g e n noch v i e l...t e n s e h u b zuz u s c h r e i b e n sein. Alaska in den Jahreu 1909 und 1910. Ein S a m m e l r...Tar. 5. MAI)D~E~,A. G.: The Innoko gold-placer district; with accounts of the central Kuskokwim Valley...: Mineral resources of the ~abesna-White River district; with a section on the Quaternary. 1910. Bull...BRooxs, A. H. and OT~ERS: Mineral resources of Alaska in 1909--1910: Bull. 442. d. Svy. 432 S. 8 Taf |
 | Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, Donald, Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., Yeend, W.E. (1988) Metallogeny and major mineral deposits of Alaska. Open-File Report Vol. 1988 (88-73) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8873 | Report (issue) |
| SURVEY Metallogeny and Major Mineral Deposits of Alaska by 1 Thomas K. BundtzenS 7 Henry C. Berg 0"3 ,...endorsement by the U.S.G.S. ' U.S. Geological Survey ^ Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...unpublished data on metalliferous mineral deposits of Alaska, and on recent and older published articles and... universities, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys... Andersen, Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska Roger P. Ashley, U.S. Geological Survey |
 | Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Grybeck, D.J., Koch, R.D., Eremin, R.A., Rozenblum, I.S., Sidorov, A.A., Byalobzhesky, S.G., Sosunov, G.M., Shpikerman, V.I., Gorodinksy, M.E. (1993) Metallogenesis of mainland Alaska and the Russian Northeast. Open-File Report Vol. 1993 (93-339) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr93339 | Report (issue) |
| GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...NORTHEASTERN RUSSIA METALLOGENESIS OF MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Noklebergl...and Richard D. Koch 1 1-U.S. Geological Survey ^-Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-339 PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...LODE DEPOSITS AND PLACER DISTRICTS FOR MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Nokleberg1 |
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| 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 |
