Mine detail: Buck Creek

Previously called 'Left ForkWest ForkPeluk CreekUpper Buck Creek'

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Location: Teller County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.64226, -167.51443
dep_id: 10308728
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Cassiterite
model: 123: Alluvial placer Sn
Reporter: Travis L. Hudson
References:
  • Deposit:: Heide, H.E. and Rutledge, F.A., 1949, Investigations of Potato Mountain tin placer deposits, Seward Peninsula, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4418, 21 p.
  • 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.
  • Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Reed, B.L., 1997, Tin deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 450-465.
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