The Nome nugget., 1922-08-05

markabe condition is due almost entirely to absence of highways during the part the 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 s1,3l7s1s.Oo. compared to combined total of s1,66S,O760O from all other placer districts Eighteen dredges about seventy five open thirteen deep underground placers operated; about $50 men being employed Regarding the future placer outlook Dr. Alfred H. Brooks Geoogi. cal Survey says Tt was estimated years ago s0S) that the value of the gold in the gravel plain ancient beach and high beach placers Penn- sula about s215 ,O0O 100000. Substracting the amount of gold that has since these de- poss the value the $200 900 900 % Though the above estimates of the available placer serves may appear extravagant to comparison will be shown that they moderate. 1. With the return of normal conditions development increased steadily in recent months and several important small strikes have been made result of prospect ing efforts
 Platinum valued at $34,Os7. .00 produced in AL aska in 1920 large portion being in Nome District The bulk of the Nome output mined from the Dime Creek placers although consd erable value made Bear and Sweepstakes Creeks and at Willow Creek. Until 1916 effort made this valuable metal but succeeding year increased output efforts recovery tended.
 [unQSfen bearing lodes developed at Fair banks and Nome when the needs led abnormal mand Considerable Tungsten shipped
 from these properties between 1916 and sche
 lite recovered from of gold dredges at Nome In all about ST tons of Alaska SchelIite concentrates have been mined and marketed l.
 <'yDer bearing found in many places in the Nome District The Omalik silvef-ead mine on Fish River has produced considerable the past but sus pended operations with the decline in silver years ago. Promising lodes are located at various other points notably on the Kugruk River where extensvs development work has been done during the past two years: although transportation difficulties have so far prevented shipment of | 2. Hnfnony ore 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 stbnte several To- calities in the Nome District The facts in hand indicate that there large anony ore in this district. f l.
 C0pp(f deposits have been found Seward Penin- sula and some of these have been developed small way few test shipments have been made ." Copper odes have been located in several places the Nokatak-Kobuk region of Northern Alaska. Consider able prospecting has been done of these deposits Shugnak, in the middle Kobuk valley Were those deposits isolated they would uoubt edly have been mined. 8.
 Gin Alaska has produced about s72 metallic tin which has nearly all from the pacers of the York District at the west end of Seward Peninsula. nom- Der of discoveries of lode tin have been made in the York section. The only development has been the Lost River Mine The best hope of the continuation of Al aska tin mining is based the lode tin in the York Dis tric. The Lost River mine is the only property sua cienty developed to justify the belief that it will