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Cassiterite from
Sutter Creek Mine, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome 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 Sutter Creek Mine, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:590288
Long-form Identifier:1:3:590288:0
GUID (UUID V4):b488143e-988a-4c43-b459-f23b3781c001
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Buck Creek (including Left Fork; West Fork; Peluk Creek; and upper Buck Creek Mine; Bucks Creek), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Grouse Creek Mine, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Iron Creek Mine, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) South Hill Prospects (near Potato Mountain), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Potato Mountain; Quartz Porphyry dike; Red Fox; Eureka; Daisy; Iron Creek valley; Big and Little Potato Mountain divide; and Iron Creek-Oakland Creek divide Prospects, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Oakland Creek Prospect (formerly known as Diomede Creek), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
6.7km (4.1 miles) Potato Creek Prospect, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) Lynx Creek Occurrence, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
12.3km (7.6 miles) Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - TE016; on Baituk Creek), Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Buckner Creek Occurrence (tributary to Anikovik River); Buhner Creek, Port Clarence Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
TIN MINING IN ALASKA. By HENRY M. EAKIN. INTRODUCTION. The first discovery of stream tin in Alaska was...Geological Survey in 1900 on Buhner Creek, in the York district, which occupies the western extremity...finding commercial bodies of tin in this part of Alaska, and in 1901 and 1902 considerable prospecting...relatively small scale. Since 1911 the dredge on Buck Creek has operated successfully each season, and in 1914...River, in the eastern part of the York district.2 Lode mining has been carried on to a greater or less
Report (volume)
Buck Creek...................................................... Anikovik Creek and Buhner Creek-.......Seward Peninsula, showing position of York region, Alaska..................................................Thin sections of altered porphyritic dike near Tin Creek.. 24 VI. A and B, Thin sections of porphyritic dike...entitled "The Tin Deposits of the York Region, Alaska," by Mr. Arthur J. Collier, and to recommend its...and this find has awakened great interest in the district. The demand for authentic information regarding
Report (issue)
placers of the ancient beach about 3 miles north of Nome. Although extensions of this beach have been uncovered...field season of 1907. 6 Brooks, A. H., Placer mining in Alaska: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 259, 1905, pp...Mofflt, F. H., Gold mining in Seward Peninsula: Bull. No. 284, 1906, pp. 132141; The Nome region : Bull. No...146-156; Geology and mineral resources of Iron Creek: Bull. No. 314, 1907, pp. 157-163. Brooks, A. H...first discovered, between Snake and Nome rivers.- But, as the mining of placers goes on with much rapidity
Report (volume)
GEOLOGY OF THE SEWARD PENINSULA TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT POINTING...____ Slates near York_____- _____ _ __ __ Port Clarence limestone-- . 5 7 S 9 10 10 10 12 Limestone..._ Orbicular contact metamorphism___________ Cassiterite prospects________________________ Lodes ___________________..._ Seaming of the limestone_________________ Cassiterite and wolframite quartz veins__________ JMetasomatic...Other mineral deposits______1..______________ 58 Alaska Chief property__________________ 58 Idaho clai
Report (volume)
Bulletin 733 GEOLOGY OF THE YORK TIN DEPOSITS ALASKA BY EDWARD STEIDTMANN AND S. H. CATHCART WASHINGTON...of report_ Acknowledgments Geography Location and area _ Topography _____ ___ . Drainage________-___ a...Mineralogy ________________.__________________ Lost River area ____________ __________________ Geographic feat... Lost River area Continued. Prospects ____ __ _____________________ Cassiterite Creek tin prospect ...the level of Cassiterite Creek___ ______________________ Tin content of the Cassiterite dike_______________
Report (issue)
HAKEINGTON. SUMMARY OF MINING OPERATIONS. t A resume of the history of tin mining in Alaska up to 1914 has been...his report. Stream tin was first found on Buhner Creek, a tributary of Anikovik River, in 1900, and there...there has been some production of cassiterite. from placer operations in the York region since 1902. In...In 1911 a dredge was installed on Buck Creek which has been in operation each season since. Two dredges...River in 1914 for the recovery of both gold and cassiterite but were operated only during that and the following
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)
INTRODUCTION. Eleven parties were engaged during 1917 in Alaska surveys and investigations. The length of the field...results of which can not be expressed in terms of area. About 1,050 square miles was covered by reconnaissance...Service, stream gaging was continued in southeastern Alaska. In 1917 the entrance of the United States into...the construction of the Government railroad in Alaska gave more than ordinary importance to the collection...geographically, two parties worked in southeastern Alaska, two on Prince William Sound, and one in the region
Report (issue)
COSNA-NOWITNA REGION. By HENRY M. EAKDST. INTRODUCTION. The area here called the Cosna-Nowitna region extends southward...general way the 1 Hcrron, J. S., Explorations in Alaska, 1899: War Dept., Adjt. General's Office, No. 31...1-77, maps, 1901. 211 212 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1915. Yukon-Kuskokwim divide. A pack train of...Geologic mapping was extended over practically the same area. The resulting maps will be published in connection...the eastern part. Still farther east, beyond the area surveyed, several small isolated ranges and hills
Report (issue)
including deposit name, country, local geographical area, mineralogy, gold and silver grades, tonnage, and...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...systems. Deposits may be many square kilometers in area representing many nearby gold lodes. GRADE AND... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills
Report (volume)
PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS OF MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA IN 1905 By ALFRED H. BROOKS AND OTHERS WASHINGTON.................................... Southeastern Alaska................................................................................... Southwestern Alaska............................................................................................ THE MINING INDUSTRY IN 1905, by Alfred H. Brooks.......................................... Auriferous lode mining...............................................
Report (issue)
H. MANNING. Director I HE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United States Mine Inspector for Alaska ENGINEERING \Y* WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...MINES H. MANNING. Director THE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United Stales Mine Inspector for Alaska WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1917 ...prohibits the CONTENTS. Page. Introduction New gold-mining districts Mineral production Placer gold Lode gold
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 (volume)
..........................-'.................. Alaska: 18 25 28 The Juneau gold belt, by Arthur C....Placer mining in Alaska in 1903, by Alfred H. Brooks......._....'.. The Porcupine placer mining district...'Wright........ Gold placers of the Fairbanks district, by L. M. Prindle ............ The Kotzebue placer......... Notes on the geology of the Goldfields district, by J. E. Spurr^...... Oklahoma: Reported gold..... Utah: Progress report on the Park City mining district, by J. M. Boutwell. Geological Survey publications
Journal (issue)
this explain why Hydroseals Tee IN THE MAJOR MINING PUMPS PROTECTED CENTERS OF THE WORLD Most...machines like the “Caterpillar” Diesel products mining throughout the world. Tractors. Bulldozers, Motor...and loading trucks for Reynolds Mining Corporation, near Hurricane Creek, Arkansas. CATERPILLAR REC. ...JJ SYD)! te up in a wooden pail. Missouri lead mine about 1890. —_—— ; eee if atOT ace | | Horse...fashioned blasting methods and other inefficient mining techniques have become so drill pattern and loading
Journal (volume)
Exposition.* G. Dodd, the superintendent of the mining departof the Union Iron Works, it will readily...greatly varying size. The gold-bearing quartz of the district is associated with these dykes, usually constituting...is that of the building and head frame at that mine. An electric plant is stalled at La Grange...contemplation at this mine. Works, •Cut copyrlghleil by the Union Ii'on S. F. vi- m 1 Mining and Scientific...Francisco, Cal. a resolution was presented having a , Mining and Scientific Press. BS-rABL.ISHBD I860. Office
Report (volume)
of Documents. ANCHORAGE, Alaska--4230 University Dr., Rm. 101 ANCHORAGE, Alaska--605 West 4th Ave., Rm...Sales Box 25286 Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from U.S. Geological Survey, Map...ROLLA, Missouri--1400 Independence Rd. FAIRBANKS, Alaska--New Federal Buildmg, Twelfth Ave. 101 • Mineral...rock types 133 Cross section through the Kalavos district Cyprus showing relationship of massive sulfide...Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, the Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program, and the Conterminous
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish...STATES ALABAMA. H ing in pure white clay at Eureka mine, 4 miles northeast of Valley Head. Etowah County
Report (issue)
complex mineralogy (such as the California-Vetas district) would be useful, not only for exploration in...the Eastern Cordillera at the California-Vetas District (Domain 23) (Sillitoe and others, 1982). Undiscovered...successful in exploration of the Viburnum Zn-Pb district of southeast Missouri, U.S.A. (Pratt, 1981). Electromagnetic...overlying limestone may be very high grade (Kennecott, Alaska: 4,200,000 tonnes at 12.8 percent Cu). Geologic...shales in the Cordillera Central "Berlin" basin area (Gameron and others, 1980). Exploration Guides and
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California. People the world over were reinfected by mining fever, Including many Californians who had not...back yards. Here in California, though no paying mine was discovered, a considerable number of stones...turn of the century. In 1906, the U.S. Diamond Mining Company was organized to explore what was thought...Though no producing mine came of this venture, the attention of the California mining fraternity was directed...indestructible. In California, during the heyday of placer mining, a stone which, judging from the description, must
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- Temecula, CA 92589 (909) 699-4749 - 1994 Mining Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INrRoDUCI'ION ••••••••...······················································ AL 1-5 Alaska ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••........ . 1994 Mining Guide INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT - PLEAsE READ! The 1994 GPM Mining Guide is designed...(normally listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting...under 18 years of age. After purchasing a current Mining Guide, GPAA members may take family members with
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