Mine detail: Wheeler

Previously called 'Betts and Dimmick'

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Location

Lat / long: 61.73955, -149.40268

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold, Hematite, Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

References

MRDSA011600
DEP10093993
Reference{Deposit:: Jasper, M.W., 1962, Willow Creek gold district activity, Anchorage quadrangle: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals report for the year 1962, p. 75-84.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Anchorage Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-409, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials in Anchorage quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1095, 184 p.}
ReporterS.W. Huss, D.P. Bickerstaff