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Cassiterite from
Ruby Gulch Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruby Gulch Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:588768
Long-form Identifier:1:3:588768:2
GUID (UUID V4):5ab543ec-36e7-42b0-a591-52abb9cb59c9
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Queen Gulch Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Snow Gulch Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Donlin Gold project (Donlin Creek prospect), Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Donlin Bench Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Quartz Gulch Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
8.3km (5.1 miles) Crooked Creek Mine, Aniak Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USA
36.3km (22.5 miles) Happy Creek Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA
41.3km (25.6 miles) Flat Creek; Marietta Mines, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA
43.7km (27.1 miles) Black Creek Mine, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA
44.7km (27.8 miles) Otter Creek Mines, Iditarod Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Department of the Interior ~ U.S. Geological Survey Iditarod quadrangle Descriptions of the mineral occurrences... prospects, and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. ID018 ID020 ID026 ID027 ID028 013 ID035 ID032...mineral occurrences in the Iditarod 1:250,000 quadrangle, southwest Alaska This and related reports are...S. Government. OPEN-FILE-REPORT 96-540 site District Mt. Joaquin McGrath Site type Prospect ARDFno...Miller, M.L USGS 5/25/94 site District Yankee Creek Innoko Site type Mine ARDFno. ID002 Quad-250
Report (volume)
Placer Deposits of Alaska By EDWARD H. COBB GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1374 An inventory of the...the placer mines and prospects of Alaska, their history and geologic setting UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...and method of presentation __ Definitions _-____ Alaska Peninsula region Aleutian Islands region ________...Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district...district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _ Chistochina district Nelchina
Report (issue)
has long attached to deposits of iron ore in an area that centers about 25 miles northwest of Nome. A...groups of claims are held in the iron-bearing district. Three of these the Mogul, Monarch, and Galena...at half a dozen other places in the same general area. The Monarch group was reached easily in a day's...MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1914. GEOLOGY. The bedrock of the iron-bearing area consists chiefly of...undifferentiated members of the group. There is a small area of Tertiary sedimentary rocks, including thin coal
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 5 PLACER DEPOSIT MAP OF CENTRAL ALASKA /) Compiled by Edward H. Cobb Open-file report...Survey standards rs Placer deposit map of central Alaska Compiled by Edward H. Cobb Introduction This map...depicts the location of placer deposits in central Alaska and uses contrasting symbols to show three categories...incomplete, and in many instances were stated for entire mining districts or even larger statistical units. The...discussion with colleagues familiar with specific mining camps. Most of the inaccuracies in assigning deposits
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Development Division of Mining & Water Management FRONT COVER Top: Ryan Lode Mine gold recovery plant and...investigates a silver prospect in the Chulitna mining district during a DGGS mapping project in July 1997...(left) and Jim Vohden (right) of the Alaska Division of Mining & Water Management, and Bronwen Wang of...on face in the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island west of Juneau, Alaska. Photo by Jan Nauman. GEOLOGY...ip nw si 9" K.H. Clautice + ee J.L. Nauman Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological
Report (issue)
OTHER MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC METALLOGENIC PROVINCES IN ALASKA (WEST OF THE 141st MERIDIAN) By Jeffrey Y. Foley1...Mines, Alaska Field Operations Center. Present address: 3301 C Street, Suite 525, Anchorage, Alaska, 99503-3935...Introduction Metallogenic provinces Northern and western Alaska Western Brooks Range metallogenic province Seward...province Southeastern Yukon-Koyukuk Basin margin and Ruby Geanticline metallogenic province Yukon-Tanana Uplands...metallogenic province Alaska Range Eastern Alaska Range metallogenic province Central Alaska Range metallogenic
Report (issue)
mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska. 153 00 63 00 TL004 TL005 TL006 * (i|:4 TL069...Talkeetna 1:250,000-scale quadrangle, southcentral Alaska This and related reports are accessible through...110631 Anchorage, AK 99511 Location of map area in Alaska This report is preliminary and has not been...REPORT 99-139 ZUSGS science for a changing world Alaska Resource Data File TL001 Site name(s): Boedeker;...occurrence. Geophysical and geological mapping by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys
Book (volume)
.............................................1 Alaska..................................................GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone...Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet on Sixmile Cr.), area of abandoned mines⎯Barite (crystallized, massive...massive & nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones;...Limonite, and some Calcite crystals. WOODSTOCK, area⎯Vivianite. BLOUNT COUNTY BLOUNTSVILLE: c W 1 mi
Book (volume)
.............................................1 Alaska..................................................GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone...Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet on Sixmile Cr.), area of abandoned mines⎯Barite (crystallized, massive...massive & nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones;...Limonite, and some Calcite crystals. WOODSTOCK, area⎯Vivianite. BLOUNT COUNTY BLOUNTSVILLE: c W 1 mi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in the...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...the most complete location guides to mines in the area are those provided by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (1954...I946 FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl
Report (volume)
of Metallic and Nonmetallic Mineral Deposits of Alaska Compiled From Published Reports of Federal and...of metallic and nonmetallic mineral deposits of Alaska, compiled from published reports of Federal and...resources Indexes. 2. Mines' and mineral resources Alaska. I. Kachadoorian, Reuben, 1921-, rjoint author...quadrangle.__.___________-__-___-___-____---_-__ Bethel quadrangle.________________________-___-_-_---___-___-_...quadrangle.___________________________________________ Iditarod quadrangle.;__-__-_:-__________.__.__.__________l----
Book (volume)
pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been...mi. E of Jackson-Banks Co. lineBeryl. MAYSVILLE, area gravels along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. ...States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:  area barite pitsBarite, Geodes... Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals;  area mines, as important producersBarite, Manganese...EMERSON:  extensive area depositsBarite, Graphite;  US 41 bridge over the Etowah R., area Barite pitsBarite
Book
to Find Gems and Minerals in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut...archaeologists working in the remote Lake Rudolf area of Africa's Kenya found shaped stone implements...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least
Report (issue)
Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...7 Bibliography . . . . . 229 Appendix: 252 Mine Index iii NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS CHEMICAL...(011, ferberitel (103, metastrengite) (111, cassiterite, rutilel (013, wulfenite) (0112, calcite) (111...working on Black Hills minerals. The geographical area covered is more extensive than the title indicates...data on each known meteorite recovered from the area. An extensive and, it is hoped, fairly complete
Report (issue)
Terror and Keystone Mines, Keystone The Uncle Sam Mine, Hoist and Mill, Perry Part of One of the Homestake...Homestake Open Cuts, Lead Lead City Blacktail Gulch, Gayville Rubj^ Basin, looking west from Sugar Loaf Hill...The Cleopatra Mine and Cyanide Plant The Etta Mine near Keystone The Hidden Fortune Mine near Lead The...The McMackin Mine near Custer Spodumene Crystals, Etta mine, near Keystone Marble Quarry near Custer.....Cambrian Shales and Sandstones, Deadwood Stewart Mine on Lower Quartzite, near Terry Deadwood The Golden
Report (volume)
AND CIRCLE DISTRICTS ALASKA BY J. B. MERTIE, JR. Mineral resources of Alaska, 1936 (Pages 133-261)...___._ Wade Creek area._________________________________________ Chicken Creek area..._______________..._____________________________________ Franklin Creek area.______________________________________ Fortymile River area____...____________. Dome Creek area-_-----_____-_-_____-_-______-________.___ Eagle district.--_---_.-_--_______...American Creek area.______________________________________ Fourth of July Creek area._______----_----_____-----_-----
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...Figure 1. Postcard view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS...igneous, and metamorphic rocks of many types. This area of the state contains skarns, pegmatites, and metallic
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...-­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska -----------------------------------------Cook Inlet-Susitna...J\la:ska region ------------------Southwestern Alaska region ------------------1'ukon region -------...(to nearest 1,000 ounces) of 25 principal gold-mining districts of the United States-through 1959---
Book (volume)
sparkling sapphires of Montana, and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia, and Wyoming, are worldrenowned... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert...by Howard A. Millar. Fred M. Bahovec of Baranof, Alaska, provided data on gemstones found in that region;...operator of the Little Three Mine at Ramona, and Ralph R. Potter of the Himalaya Mine at Mesa Grande provided
Report (volume)
on Park City mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell_ 41 Placer gold mining in Alaska in 1902, by Alfred...Alfred H. Brooks 49 The Glenn Creek gold-mining district, Alaska, by Arthur J. Collier_ _ Gold and pyrite...pyrite deposits of the Dahlonega district, Georgia, by Edwin 57 C. Eckel_ _ 64 Neocene rivers of the Sierra...The Chistochina gold field, Alaska, by Walter C. Mendenhall . 76 Gold mining in central Washington, by...by J. E. 81 Spurr Gold mines of the Marysville district, Montana, by Walter Harvey 88 Weed 90 List of
Report (issue)
mineralized areas prior to mining, and conditions that result from mining and mineral processing. Other...as climate, and anthropogenic factors (including mining and mineral processing methods) mostly modify the...exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...from mining, mineral processing, and smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits
Report (issue)
NONMETALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS IN EASTERN SOUTHERN ALASKA TO ACCOMPANY OPEN-FILE MAP 77-169A This report...NONMETALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS IN EASTERN SOUTHERN ALASKA (To accompany open-file map 77-169A) By E. M....eastern southern Alaska. The table and accompanying map -are part of the Regional Alaska Minerals Resource...Resource Assessment Program (RAMRAP).for. southern Alaska. They are based on an extensive literature search...Geological Survey and information derived from the Alaska Minerals Resource Appraisal Program (AMRAP) were
Report (volume)
D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA BY MARCUS BAKER SEC03ST3D EIDITIOIT PKEPAHE...established; old mining fields have been developed and new ones discovered and prospected; mining camps of that...PEEFACE. the same as names met at every turn in the mining regions of the West. The first edition of this-...Survey. CHARLES S. SLOANE, Secretary, Bureau of the Census. Maj. WILLIAM D. BEACH, General Staff, War Department...years ago determined to prepare a dictionary of Alaska geographic names and appointed a committee which
Report (issue)
Heavy Metals Program 1970 J J NOTE STEWART GULCH (SEC. 1, T. 4 N., R. 3 E.) IS MISLABELED ON THE...AS PLATE 5 IN THIS REPORT. STEWART GULCH IS THE NEXT UNNAMED GULCH TO THE NORTH, ON THE LINE BETWEEN...7 OF THE ABOVE TOWNSHIP. CREEK. THE MISLABELED GULCH SHOULD BE THE NORTH FORK OF WHITETAIL THE CORRECT...TEXT AND IN ALL EARLIER LITERATURE ON THE RUBY BASIN DISTRICT. COLOR KEY FOR ALL MAPS IN THIS REPORT....... 45 Mining Districts ....................... 49 4.1 Bald Mountain Mining District .........
Book (volume)
pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as an example, under the heading...corresponding entry is as follows: 7. Orella Station area (a former watering stop of the Chicago, Burlington...cross tracks and go 3 miles west through Badlands area (negotiable for autos but four-wheel drive is recommended)...the directions, the first portion—Orella Station area—initially directs the reader to the closest municipality...follows that dim road westward for 3 miles through an area of badlands that can be traveled by auto, although
 
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