The Nome nugget., 1922-07-29

markable condition Is due almost entirely absence of highways during the greater of the two decades gold production
 Despite the deterring conditions under which it
 abors the Nome District the prosperous of the Alaska placer mining regions in 1920. It produced gold valued at s1,317.S1s.6U. compared a combined total of s1,66SO760O from all placer districts Eighteen dredges about seventy open mines and thirteen deep underground placers operated; about $50 men being employed. Regarding the future placer outlook. Dr. Alfred H Brooks of the U S. Geolog cal Survey It estimated years ago 90S) that the value of the gold gravel plain ancient beach high beach pacers Seward Penn, sua about s215.00O. .0OO.OO substracting the amount of gold that has since been mined from these posits leaves the value of the $2O0 Though the above estimates of the available placer serves may appear extravagant to comparison will be shown that they are moderate. 1. With the return Of normal conditions development steadily in recent months and several important small strikes have been made renewed prospect ing efforts.
 aska in 1920 portion being obtained in the Nome District The bulk of the Nome output mined from
 the Dime Creek placers although recoveries of consd erabe value made Bear Sweepstakes Creeks and at Willow Creek Until 1916 effort made to this valuable metal but each succeeding year increased output efforts recovery tended.
 banks and Nome when the needs abnormal de- mand Considerable Tungsten shipped from these properties between 1916 and 1918 Sche
 lite was recovered from concentrates of gold dredges Nome '''' In all about S7 tons of Alaska Satellite concentrates have been mined and marketed. 1.
 SijOes bearing are found in many places in the Nome District The Omalik silver-lead mine on Fish River has produced considerable past but pended operations with the decline in silver years ago. Promising lodes located at various other points, notably the Nugruk River where extensive development work has been done during the past two years; although transportation difficulties have so far prevented shipment of ore. [ D.
 .9nfjmCnV in the form of stibnite is one of the most widely distributed minerals in Alaska The high price and ready market for antimony during the led to development of stibne ores at several To- cates in the Nome District ssss The facts in hand
 indicate that there large anmony ore in this district. l..
 Copper deposits have been found on Seward Penin- sua and some of these have been developed in small way. few test shipments have been made : |" '" Copper odes have been located in places the Nokatak-Kobuk region of Northern Alaska. Consider able prospecting has been done of these deposits near Shugnak. fin the middle Kobuk valley : Were those deposits not isolated they would undoubt edly have been mined 8.
 Gin Alaska has produced 972 tons of metallic n which has nearly all from the placers of the York District at the west end of Seward Peninsula. num- Der of discoveries of lode tin have been made in the section. The only development has been at the Lost River Mine. The best hope of the continuation of AL aska tin mining is based the lode tin in the York Dis trict The Lost River mine is the only property sui- ciently developed justify the belief that it soon