The Bear Creek Placer is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Bear Creek Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bear Creek Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Rhenium
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Tin
Tertiary: Thorium
Tertiary: Uranium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Hughes
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: U. V. Industries
Home Office: P.O. Box 1170, Fairbanks, Ak. 99707
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SPHENE FROM ONE SAMPLE CONTAINED 28,450 PPM RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS AND 1,400 PPM TH. OLD REPORTS OF PLATINUM-GROUP METALS AND CASSITERITE IN CONCENTRATES PROBABLY ARE NOT CORRECT.
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cassiterite
Ore: Platinum
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Comment (Geology): BEAR CREEK FLOWS ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE ZONE HILLS QUARTZ MONZONITE-GRANODORITE PLUTON. ZONE OF THERMAL METAMORPHISM BORDERS PLUTON. ; REG.COM: AURIFEROUS GRAVELS DERIVED FROM GLACIAL DEPOSITS OF LOCAL ORIGIN; THE GOLD AND OTHER HEAVY MINERALS IN PLACER CONCENTRATES PROBABLY ORIGINALLY CAME FROM CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN UPPER CRETACEOUS PORPHYRITIC MONZONITE AND LOWER CRETACEOUS ANDESITIC VOLCANIC ROCKS BENEATH GLACIAL DEPOSITS ABOUT A MILE ABOVE MINED AREA.
Comment (Commodity): CASSITERITE AND PLATINUM-GROUP METALS IDENTIFIED IN SAMPLES COLLECTED IN THE EARLY 1920'S.
Comment (Location): USGS MF-458, LOC. 7. TAILINGS MARKED ON HUGHES (A-6). MINE MARKED ON HUGHES QUADRANGLE MAP. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = SHUNGNAK 1:250000
Comment (Deposit): STREAM GRADIENT APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET PER MILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Development): SMALL-SCALE MINING IN 1921; A DREDGE OPERATED FROM 1957 TO 1975. 19 MEN OPERATED DREDGE IN 1975.
Comment (Deposit): AURIFEROUS GRAVELS CONCENTRATED IN OUTWASH STREAMS FROM A GLACIAL LOBE THAT TERMINATED AT BEAR CREEK.
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 75-267, P. 5.
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-458 (A-6), LOC. 7
Reference (Deposit): USGS C 570, P. 9.
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROF. PAPER 525-A, P. A102
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