Unnamed (on Baituk Creek)

The Unnamed (on Baituk Creek) is a tin and gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed (on Baituk Creek)

Commodity

Primary: Tin
Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence

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: Alluvial placer Sn

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Cassiterite

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Three USBM churn-drill holes on Baituk Creek and three prospect pits, one each in the headwater drainage of Baituk Creek and the headwater tributaries, Fremont and Justice Creeks, were completed in this area.

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in the drainage is a slaty metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age locally intruded by altered mafic bodies (Sainsbury, 1972). The three USBM churn-drill hole completed at this location encountered 4 to 5 feet of gravel over bedrock. Heavy mineral concentrates from these drill holes contained a trace of tin and one contained a trace of gold. The heavy minerals included pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, augite, cassiterite and gold. A sample from a prospect pit on Justice Creek contained 0.003 % eU and a trace of gold. Two other prospect pits in the area failed to reach bedrock and samples from them did not contain uranium or gold values.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)

References

Reference (Deposit): Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Sampling stream gravels for tin, near York, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5520, 25 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

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