Prospectors Told
Of Radioactive
“Hot Spots”
A number of radioactive “hot
spots” in Alaska were revealed
this week by the U.S. Geological
Survey, acting on behalf of the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Known to geologists as “ano
malies,the hot spots revealed so
far are all in the interior.
Commissioner of Mines Phil
Holdsworth cautioned would - be
stampeders that the locations are
for the most part in remote and
sometimes almost inaccessible
areas and that the higher than
normal radioactive readings re
corded are “not necessarily un
usual.”
“It is not surprising that many
of these locations are mountain
ous. Mountains would ordinarily
show more radioactivity than the
surrounding terrain due to their
lack of overburden which cuts
down the count,” said Holds
worth.
The “hot spots” reported were:
1. Thirty miles northwest of
Rampart on the north side of the
Ray mountains.
2. At the head of the Kanuti
River in the Carbon mountain
area.
3. Fifteen miles east of Hughes
near the contact between granite
and the intruded sedimentary
rocks in that area near the head
of the Indian river.
4. At the north end of the Kus
kokwim mountains, south and
southwest of the Cosna-Nowitna
divide, both on the east and west
of the North Fork of the Kusko
kwim river.
5. Ten miles southwest of
Circle Hot Springs.
6. Northeast of Fairbanks in
the Circle Springs-Preacher creek
areas.
7. Two areas in the region of
Mr. Fairplay between Forty-Mile
highway and the Forty-Mile river.
8. In the headwaters of the
Healy river in the Big Delta
region.
9. Two areas, one southeast and
the other northeast of Purcell
mountain near Shungnak.
10. Between the Alatna river
an Tobuk creek near Survey Pass.
Exact pin-point location by lon
gitude and latitude can be ob
tained from the U.S. Geological
Survey offices in the Glover
building, Anchorage.
In pin pointing the hot spots,
the Geological Survey used a
four-inch scintillation crystal in a
light bush plane and flew at an
average elevation of 100 feet and
j at a speed of about 80 miles an
I hour.
The radioactive hot spots were
located earlier this summer and
have not been checked on the
ground.
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PORTLAND, U!\—Secretary of
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He told a meeting of the Port
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