The Anikovik River Beach is a gold and tin mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Anikovik River Beach MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Anikovik River Beach
Commodity
Primary: Gold
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: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Model Name: Shoreline placer Ti
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Cassiterite
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial and beach(?) Au-Sn placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; models 39a and 39c)
Comment (Deposit): Model Number = 39a, 39c
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Mulligan (1959, p. 5) reports that a small dredge worked in this area for 123 days during the 1914 and 1915 seasons. This dredge processed 156,000 cubic yards of gravel and recovered 1,217 ounces of gold and 1,600 pounds of concentrate containing 31% tin.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520)
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Mulligan (1959, p. 5) reports that a small dredge worked in this area for 123 days during the 1914 and 1915 seasons. This dredge processed 156,000 cubic yards of gravel and recovered 1,217 onces of crude gold and 1,600 pounds of concentrate containing 31% tin. Two USBM churn-drill holes were later completed in this area (Mulligan, 1959).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Anikovik River's eastern tributaries have headwaters in Ordovician limestone of the York Mountains (Sinsbury, 1972) whereas the main drainage and western tributaries are in areas underlain by a thin-bedded, slaty metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age locally intruded by altered mafic bodies . This locality is in the lower part of the river within 0.25 miles of the Bering Sea. The geomorphic character of this area suggests that at least some alluvial deposits of the Anikovik River have been reworked by shoreline processes but available descriptions are insufficient to evaluate this possibility. The two USBM churn-drill holes here (Mulligan, 1959), encountered only 3 and 4 feet of gravel and appear to have been in alluvial materials. A trace of tin was found in the heavy mineral concentrates from these churn-drill holes but the identified minerals only included pyrite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, augite, ilmenite, magnetite, ankerite, and zircon (Mulligan, 1959, p. 19). Mulligan (1959, p. 5) reports that a small dredge worked in this area for 123 days during the 1914 and 1915 seasons. This dredge processed 156,000 cubic yards of gravel and recovered 1,217 ounces of gold and 1,600 pounds of concentrate containing 31% tin.
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
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): 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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