Gold Deposit in Willow Creek District Called Valuabla
A United States Geological
Survey report on the gold lode
deposits of the Willow Creek
District, Alaska, made public,
says that in many places in the
district “valuable ore has been
passed by owing to lack of cross
cutting.”
The district is in the south
western portion of the Talkeet
nn Mountains, a few miles north
of the head of Cook Inlet. It is
easily accessible by automobile
road from Wasilla, a small town
cn the Alaska Railroad forty
five miles north of Anchorage.
The report said the total lode
gold production for the district
in the past has had a value of
several million dollars, the larg
est part of which has come from
three mines on Craigie Creek.
The average gold vaiue of the
total ore milled is $50 to the ton,
the report said, in the south
western portion of the district
and gradually decreases to $25
to the ton in the northeastern
portion.
Ore Shoots Proved
The report’s conclusion fol
low: “The presence of many
valuable ore shoots at various
depths from the present surface
to 500 feet below the outcrops
has been proved.
“The character of the veins
justifies the belief mineralized
rock essentially similar to that
known in the higher levels of
the mines continues downward
for several thousand feet and
that valuable ore shoots may
reasonably be expected at great
er depths than those already
reached and should be encount
ered in the course of well direct
ed exploration.
“On account of postmineral
transverse faults and the re
sultant offsets of the vein seg
ments great caution should be
exercised in explorations to
locate the extensions of proved
veins. Crosscutting should be
carried beyond slickenslide walls
to determine the total thickness
of the composite veins.
“That the district contains
valuable ore deposits has been
demonstrated by its past produc
tion, and its potential resources
are considered to be at least
several times greater than those
already developed.
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25-YEAR MINING PERIOD
FORESEEN IN ALASKA FIELD
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The United States Geological
Survey, in an abstract of a re
port on the minerals of the
Fairbanks district of Alaska, is
sued recently, said the area pro
duced almost $80,000,000 from
placer deposits between 1904 and
1930 and that even greater a
mount may be reclaimed in the
next twenty-five years. The re
port was made by James M. Hill
in the area tributary to the
Alaska Railroad.
The abstract said the principal
mineral deposits, aside from ex
tensive gold placers, are the gold
quartz veins, carrying from iy2
to 2 per cent of sulphides and
free gold.
Conditions Improved
Economic conditions govern
ing the recovery of the gold,
which the report classed as
“largely free,” were described as
superior to those in many other
mining camps.
The placer deposits which may
be taken out in the next twenty.,
five years will be recovered by
mechanical devices reworking
the same streams, Hill com
mented.
Gold Lode Still Rich
“It is believed the lode gold
deposits, which produced nearly
$2,000,000 from 1910 to 1930, can
produce in the next twenty-five
years an equal amount of gold.”
the report said.
Antimony and tungsten also
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occur in the district, but the
survey said prices were not
sufficiently high at present to
result in working of the deposits.
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A man, who complained of a
pain in his stomach, was operat
ed on and the following objects
were extracted: 146 nails, 23 pins
and needles, 67 rivets and
springs, two hobnails, two split
pins, and seven other articles.
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