Mine detail: Colorado Creek

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Location: Ophir County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 63.57186, -156.01081
dep_id: 10308973
mrds_id: A015007
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Producer
ore: Coulsonite, Gold, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Powellite, Scheelite, Stibnite, Xanthoconite
model: 119: Placer Au-PGE
Reporter: C.E. Cameron
References:
  • Deposit:: Eakin, H.M., 1914, The Iditarod-Ruby region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 578, 45 p.
  • Deposit:: Mertie, J.B., Jr., and Harrington, G.L., 1916, Mineral resources of the Ruby-Kuskokwim region, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Mineral Resources of Alaska, Report on Progress of Investigations in 1915: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 642, p. 223-266.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1937, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1935: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 880-A, p. 1-95.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Ophir quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-367, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction material) in the Iditarod and Ophir quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-576, 101 p.
  • Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Green, C.B., Deagen, J., and Daniels, C.L., 1987, Alask* mineral industry, 1986: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Special Report 40, 68 p.
  • Deposit:: Thorson, R.M., and Guthrie, R.D., 1982, Stratigraphy of the Colorado Creek mammoth locality, Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 37, no. 2, p. 214-228.
  • Deposit:: Swainbank, R.C., Szumigala, D.J., Henning, M.W., and Pillifant, F.M., 2000, Alask* mineral industry 1999: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 54, 73 p.
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