Banner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

The Banner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River) is a tin mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Banner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

Commodity

Primary: Tin

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

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cassiterite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Three USBM churn-drill holes have been completed here (Mulligan, 1959).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Banner Creek flows west from headwaters in Ordovician limestones of the York Mountains (Sainsbury, 1972) but most of its drainage is across a thin bedded metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age. The USBM completed three churn-drill holes on a line across Banner Creek about 0.75 miles upstream from the mouth on Anikovik River; this location is just upstream of an unnamed south tributary to Banner Creek (Mulligan, 1959). The churn-drill holes encountered five feet of gravel on bedrock. Heavy mineral concentrates contained a trace of tin and included pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, ilmenite, tourmaline, zircon, augite, hematite, hypersthene, and cassiterite. Although first reports from this creek indicated the presence of some gold (Cobb, 1975), the USBM drilling did not encounter it. Mulligan (1959, p. 17) noted the presence of a felsic dike (with some sulfide minerals) in bedrock near the churn-drill locations.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520)

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

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

References

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): Brooks, A.H., 1901, A reconnaissance of the Cape Nome and adjacent goldfields of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication. p. 1-180.

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.

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): 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.

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