Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1914Contains summary of results of 1914 investigations of Alaskan mineral resources and mining development as well as status of mining industry in Alaska. |
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A. H. Brooks Alaska Aniak River argillite average basin Bear Creek bedrock beds bench deposits Bonanza Creek Bulletin 592 Cassiterite chalcopyrite Chisana Chitina cinnabar claims coal concentration country rock Creek valley crosscut depth dikes dredges east F. H. Moffit Fairbanks feet fissure galena geologic glacial Glacier gold placers granitic graywacke greenstone Gulch headwater Iditarod inches intrusive rocks issued separately Kolmakof Kuskokwim Mountains Kuskokwim River Lake lease limestone lower Marvel Creek Matanuska miles mill Mineral Creek mineral resources mountain mouth Nelchina occur open cuts operations P. S. Smith placer gold placer mining plants Port Valdez district present Prince William Sound production prospecting pyrite quartz quicksilver region reported scale sediments Seward Peninsula shaft shale Shoup slopes Spruce Creek stibnite stream sulphides summer surface Survey Bull Susitna T. G. Gerdine thick tributaries Tuluksak tunnel U. S. Geol vein width winter Yukon zone
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Page 35 - Act which may be acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years and not longer after its acquisition : Provided.
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Page 36 - Interior the right to permit upon such terms as he may determine to be just. for joint or several use, such easements or rights of way, including easements in tunnels upon, through, or in the lands leased, occupied, or used as may be necessary or appropriate to the working of the same, or of other lands containing the deposits described in this Act, and the treatment and shipment of the products thereof by or under authority of the Government, its lessees, or permittees, and for other public purposes...
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Page 33 - Alaska, into leasing tracts of forty acres each, or multiples thereof, and in such form as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, will permit the most economical mining...
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Page v - US Grant and DF Higgins. Bulletin 526, 1913, 75 pp. The McKinley Lake district, by Theodore Chapin. In Bulletin 542, 1913, pp. 78-80. Mining in Chitina Valley, by FH Moffit. In Bulletin 542, 1913, pp. 81-85. Mineral deposits of the Ellamar district, by SR Capps and BL Johnson. In Bulletin 542, 1913, pp. 86-124.