Mine detail: Lower White Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.19963, -147.32275

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Magnetite, Orpiment, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Realgar
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host type:Slate
Associated type:Slate

References

MRDSA011356
DEP10000718
Reference{Deposit:: Mendenhall, W.C., 1905, Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 41, 133 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1908, The mining industry in 1907: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 345, 294 p.}{Deposit:: Moffit, F.H., 1909, Mining in the Kotsina-Chitina, Chistochina, and Valdez Creek Regions: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 379, p. 153-160.}{Deposit:: Ross, C.P., 1933, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849, p. 289-467.}{Deposit:: Tuck, Ralph, 1938, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-B, p. 109-131.}{Deposit:: Smith, T.E., 1971, Geology, economic geochemistry, and placer gold resources of the western Clearwater Mountains, east-central Alaska: Reno, University of Nevada, Ph.D. dissertation, 440 p.}{Deposit:: Smith, T.E., 1981, Geology of the Clearwater Mountains, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 60, 72 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Wiltse, M.A., 1988, Preliminary litho-geochemistry of Gold Hill and Lucky Hill, Valdez Creek mining district, Healy A-1 quadrangle, southcentral Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Public-data File 88-41, 9 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:12,000.}{Deposit:: Wiltse, M.A., and Reger, R.D., 1989, Geologic map of Gold Hill and Lucky Hill, Valdez Creek mining district, Healy A-1 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Public-data File 89-5, scale 1:12,000, 1 sheet.}{Deposit:: Reger, R.D., and Bundtzen, T.K., 1994, Multiple glaciation and gold-placer formation, Valdez Creek Valley, western Clearwater Mountains, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Professional Report 107, 30 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.}
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