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Salmon River

The Salmon River is a iridium and pge mine located in Alaska at an elevation of 174 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Salmon River

State:  Alaska

County:  na

Elevation: 174 Feet (53 Meters)

Commodity: Iridium, PGE

Lat, Long: 58.925, -161.71250

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Salmon River MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Salmon River
Secondary: Platinum Creek
Secondary: Fox Gluch
Secondary: Claims On River: D, 1a-12a, 1b-20b
Secondary: 4th July Bench Association
Secondary: 7b 2nd Tier Llb-8b 2nd Tier Llb
Secondary: Wild Goose Bench Association
Secondary: Martha Bench
Secondary: 10a 2nd Tier Llb
Secondary: Lucky Bench Association
Secondary: Bubble Association
Secondary: Ronny Association
Secondary: Dry Gulch
Secondary: Mukluk Bench Association
Secondary: Karen Association
Secondary: Jenny Bench
Secondary: Goodnews Bay Mine
Secondary: Clara Creek
Secondary: Squirrel Creek
Secondary: Snow Gulch
Secondary: Claims On Creeks : D, 1a-4b, 1b-5b
Secondary: 5a Llb-8allb, 10allb-12allb
Secondary: 9a Association
Secondary: 3a 2nd Tier Llb-8a 2nd Tier Llb
Secondary: 3b 2nd Tier Llb-4b 2nd Tier Llb
Secondary: Kilbuck Fraction
Secondary: Happy Bench
Secondary: 7 Fraction
Secondary: Ptarmigan Bench
Secondary: Spencer Bench
Secondary: Olson Bench
Secondary: Harold Bench
Secondary: Weeks Bench
Secondary: Johnston Bench
Secondary: Anna Bench
Secondary: Hannah Bench
Secondary: Euphoria Association
Secondary: Alice Association
Secondary: Christina Association
Secondary: Judith Association
Secondary: Sonny Association
Secondary: Faye Association
Secondary: Joann Association
Secondary: Last Chance Creek
Secondary: Boulder Creek
Secondary: Dowry Creek

Commodity

Primary: Iridium
Primary: PGE
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Chromium
Tertiary: Diamond
Tertiary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay District

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Type: Located Claim

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Hanson Properties Inc.
Company ID: 5000338
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Washington
Info Year: 1988

Production

Year: 1951
Description: 36951 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1950
Description: 37855 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1949
Description: 24807 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1948
Description: 17169 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1947
Description: 13741 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1946
Description: 13512 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1945
Description: 22882 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1944
Description: 26505 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1943
Description: 33616 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1942
Description: 27100 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1941
Description: 22000 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1940
Description: 25400 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1952
Description: Production Reported 20285 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1939
Description: 33900 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1938
Description: 41000 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1937
Description: 9500 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1936
Description: 8825 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1935
Description: 8685 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1937
Description: 3101 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1933
Description: 793 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1932
Description: 720 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1931
Description: 506 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1928
Description: 100 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1959
Description: Production Reported 10636 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1958
Description: Production Reported 10253 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1957
Description: Production Reported 13850 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1976
Description: Production Reported 3212 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1975
Description: Production Reported 3086 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1974
Description: Production Reported 2584 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1973
Description: Production Reported 4707 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1956
Description: Production Reported 16811 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1955
Description: Production Reported 14940 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1954
Description: Production Reported 17570 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1953
Description: Production Reported 15698 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1977
Description: Production Reported 6892 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1971
Description: Production Reported 4495 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1970
Description: Production Reported 6701 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1969
Description: Production Reported 10485 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1968
Description: Production Reported 7580 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1967
Description: Production Reported 7238 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1966
Description: Production Reported 8856 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1965
Description: Production Reported 9973 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1964
Description: Production Reported 12982 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1963
Description: Production Reported 12025 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1962
Description: Production Reported 12471 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1961
Description: Production Reported 16111 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1972
Description: Production Reported 4202 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1960
Description: Production Reported 13318 Troy Ounces Commodity
 Year: 1981
Description: Production Reported 900 Troy Ounces Commodity

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Placer
Mining Method: Unknown
Milling Method: Gravity
Year First Production: 1927
Discovery Year: 1926
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Unknown: Corundum
Unknown: Tremolite
Unknown: Tourmaline
Unknown: Topaz
Unknown: Spinel
Unknown: Sperrylite
Unknown: Rutile
Unknown: Platinum
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Iridosmine
Unknown: Ilmenite
Unknown: Gold
Unknown: Epidote
Unknown: Enstatite
Unknown: Diamond
Unknown: Chromite

Comments

Comment (Production): Production data from 1952 - 1981, dredge production only

Comment (Geology): PLATINUM MINERAL ALLOYED WITH FIVE OTHER PT. GROUP ELEMENTS. ADDITIONAL MINERALS: COOPERITE, MERTIEITE, LAURITE

Comment (Ownership): OWNER ADDRESS: HANSON PROPERITIES, INC. P.O. BOX 7310 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 99207 TELE: (509) 467-0770

Comment (Reserve-Resource): M1=N/CUM M2=N/CUM QUANTITY DETERMINED FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH COMPANY OFFICIAL

Comment (Deposit): USGS CRIB A001254 USGS CRIB A001257 DREDGING 1937-1975 ON SALMON CREEK. DREDGING OPERATIONS DISCONTINUED 1976. SMALLER SCALE OPERATIONS IN 1976. USGS CRIB A001260 USGS CRIB A001262 USGS CRIB M045371 USGS CRIB M045372 USGS CRIB M045373 USGS CRIB M045376 USGS CRIB M045381 USGS CRIB A001252 USGS CRIB M045380 USGS CRIB M045381 USGS CRIB A001262 USGS CRIB M045371 USGS CRIB M045372 USGS CRIB A001254 USGS CRIB A001257 USGS CRIB A001260 Original Evaluation 1981, Update 1984.

Comment (Names): WEBB ASSOCIATION AXEL BENCH TONY BENCH LILA BENCH BETTY BENCH SUSIE BENCH ANNIE GULCH NO.1 ANNIE GULCH NO.2 DOWRY FRACTION ETHEL FRACTION ST.CLAIR FRACTION MARGARET BENCH MISS FRACTION 5 BELOW FRACTION REINDEER FRACTION 15B LLB JCT #1-#59 PEGGY ASSOCIATION MAE ASSOCIATION LINDA ASSOCIATION MAE ASSOCIATION PAULENE BENCH HAROLD FRACTION GARY BENCH SARAH BENCH MEDICINE BENCH #5 INCLAIR FRACTION PORTLAND BENCH DOBBIE BENCH THREE STAR BENCH ZERO BENCH SUMMIT BENCH PUNCH BOWL BENCH NORTHERN LIGHT BENCH MINNIE BENCH TRIDIUM BENCH ETHEL BENCH PANKIN BENCH SILVER FRACTION

References

Reference (Deposit): B824a p. 66

Reference (Deposit): B836a p. 68

Reference (Deposit): B844A p. 66

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1932 p. 338

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1934 p. 508

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1935b p. 562

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1936b p. 510

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1937b p. 748

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1938b p. 662

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1939b p. 738

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1940b p. 751

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1941b p. 784

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1942b p. 802

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1943c p. 799

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1944c p. 791

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1945b p. 794

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1946a p. 1008

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1947a p. 995

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1948a p. 1043

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1949a p. 1015

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1950a p. 1022

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1951a p. 1069

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1952 p. 78

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1953 p. 82

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1954b p. 90

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1955b p. 96

Reference (Deposit): P938 p. 26

Reference (Deposit): OF77-168B p. 24, No. 8

Reference (Deposit): OF77-168D p. 50, No. 6

Reference (Deposit): OF80-909 pp. 14, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27, 31

Reference (Deposit): E&MJ 8107 p. 41

Reference (Deposit): OF82-719 p. 9, No. 206

Reference (Deposit): AMR 81-82 pp. 5, 6, 14, 23, 31, 39

Reference (Deposit): MTA 82 No. D-56

Reference (Deposit): SR31 pp. 8, 12, 21

Reference (Deposit): SR33 pp. 10, 25

Reference (Deposit): SR38 p. 11

Reference (Deposit): AK MINE LICENSE-1985 No. 547

Reference (Deposit): SR39 p. 27

Reference (Deposit): BMOF51-86

Reference (Deposit): BMOF1-88

Reference (Deposit): IC8869 8 pp.

Reference (Deposit): CAN MINERAL 7504 pp. 321-325

Reference (Deposit): CAN MINERAL 8404 pp. pp. 543-552

Reference (Deposit): AM MINERAL 7301 pp. 1-10

Reference (Deposit): FISHER 79 16 pp.

Reference (Deposit): BMOF97-85 pp. 24-26

Reference (Deposit): IR HMF 490924 p. 7

Reference (Deposit): GOODNEWS 79 20 pp.

Reference (Deposit): OF78-9B 1 sheet

Reference (Deposit): DMEA 2931 pp. 6-7

Reference (Deposit): ECON G 37N3 p. 1080

Reference (Deposit): AGS 76b 17 pp.

Reference (Deposit): P820d pp. 537-545

Reference (Deposit): ARCTIC V20N4 pp. 227-246

Reference (Deposit): MR123-4 pp. 1-26

Reference (Deposit): IR JCR 370706 pp. 1-2,4

Reference (Deposit): MR101-3 34 pp.

Reference (Deposit): IR JCR 380901 8 pp.

Reference (Deposit): IR JCR 390701 14 PP.

Reference (Deposit): P1275a p. 19

Reference (Deposit): B813a p. 60

Reference (Deposit): B864A pp. 67-68

Reference (Deposit): B880A p. 73

Reference (Deposit): B897A p. 83

Reference (Deposit): B910A pp. 62, 89

Reference (Deposit): B917A pp. 61, 82-83

Reference (Deposit): B910B pp. 127-128

Reference (Deposit): E&MJ 3805 pp. 40-41

Reference (Deposit): MS THESIS U AK 7 115 pp.

Reference (Deposit): WILTSE 79 50 pp.

Reference (Deposit): B918 pp. 65-67

Reference (Deposit): B926A pp. 76-77

Reference (Deposit): B933A pp. 73-74

Reference (Deposit): I321

Reference (Deposit): P630 pp. 77, 79-88

Reference (Deposit): MF362

Reference (Deposit): OF508 pp. 29-30

Reference (Deposit): B1374 p. 50

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1959 p. 89

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1960 p. 83

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1961 p. 85

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1962 p. 88

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1963 p. 87

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1964 p. 98

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1965 p. 81

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1966 p. 82

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1967 p. 87

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1968 p. 86

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1969 p. 86

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1970 p. 83

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1971 p. 81

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1972 p. 67

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1973 p. 66

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1956b p. 91

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1957b p. 89

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1958 p. 86

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1974 p. 69

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1975 p. 65

Reference (Deposit): BM YEARBOOK 1976 p. 74

Reference (Geology): P938 pp. 14-17

Reference (Ownership): ALASKA KARDEX 123-002

Reference (Ownership): ALASKA KARDEX 123-004

Reference (Ownership): ALASKA KARDEX 123-008

Reference (Ownership): ALASKA KARDEX 123-019

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