The Miners River is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Miners River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Miners River
Secondary: Miners Bay Discovery
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Prince William Sound
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A 0.1 cubic yard sample found to contain 0.005 oz Au/cubic yard (Hoekzema and Fechner, 1984).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Jansons and others, 1984
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Moderate mineral development potential (Jansons and others, 1984).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold present in Quaternary alluvial gravels (Jansons and others, 1984). The alluvial gravels are derived from metasedimentary rocks of the Late Cretaceous Valdez Group. A 0.1 cubic yard sample was found to contain 0.005 oz Au/cubic yard (Hoekzema and Fechner, 1984).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
References
Reference (Deposit): Hoekzema, R.B., and Fechner, S.A., 1986, Placer Gold sampling in and near the Chugach National Forest, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9091, 42 p.
Reference (Deposit): Jansons, Uldis, Hoekzema, R.B., Kurtak, J.M., and Fechner, S.A., 1984, Mineral occurrences in the Chugach National Forest, Southcentral Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 5-84, 218 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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