Buckner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)

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

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Site Name

Primary: Buckner Creek (tributary to Anikovik River)
Secondary: Buhner Creek

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: 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: Cassiterite

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

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

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock of the Anikovik River drainage includes two major assemblages (Sainsbury, 1972). Throughout most of the drainage, bedrock is a slaty metapelitic and metasandstone sequence of unknown but probable Paleozoic age locally intruded by altered mafic bodies. Ordovician limestone of the York Mountains makes up bedrock in the headwaters of the eastern tributaries. The USBM reported results from three churn-drill holes in this part of Anikovik River (Mulligan, 1959, p. 18-19); there was no overburden and only 3 to 4 feet of gravel over bedrock in these holes. The two upstream a short distance from the mouth of Buckner Creek had a trace of tin detected in the heavy mineral concentrates but only pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, augite, zircon, and garnet were identified minerals. The one churn-drill hole from the mouth of Buckner Creek contained heavy mineral concentrate with pyrite, limonite psuedomorphs after pyrite, hematite, augite, zircon, and cassiterite. Gold was not identified in any of these churn-drill holes.

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some early hand mining was attempted on Buckner Creek. The USBM completed 3 churn-drill holes in this area (Mulligan, 1959, p. 8).

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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