Mine detail: Eldorado Creek

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Location: Teller County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.9343, -166.11445
dep_id: 10308738
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Cassiterite
model: 123: Alluvial placer Sn
Reporter: Travis L. Hudson
References:
  • Deposit:: Knopf, Adolph, 1908, Geology of the Seward Peninsula tin deposits, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 358, 71 p.
  • Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Tin placer and lode investigations, Ear Mountain area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5493, 53 p.
  • Deposit:: Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • 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:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Tungsten occurrences in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Resource Map MR-66, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Arth, J. G., 1983, Tin-granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 768-790.
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