The Nome nugget., 1922-06-24

condition is due entirely to absence highways during the greater part of the two decades gold production
 Despite the deterring conditions under which i,
 abors the Nome District the of the Alaska placer mining regions in 1920. It produced gold valued at $1.317,s1900. compared a combined total of $16Ss07600 from all other placer districts Eighteen dredges about seventy i've cut mines thirteen deep underground placers operated about $50 men being employed Regarding the future placer outlook Dr. Alfred H. Brooks the U. S. Geoog- cal Survey "It was estimated 90S) that the value of the gold reserves in the gravel pain ancient beach high beach placers Seward Penn- sua about $215.o00, ,OO000. Substracting the of gold that has since been mined from these posits the value of the $20O O0 Though the above estimates of the available placer serves may appear extravagant to some. comparison will be shown that they moderate. l.. With the return normal conditions. development has increased steadily in recent months and several important small have been made result of renewed prospect ling efforts.
 Platinum valued at ss4.os7.oo was produced in AL aska in 1920 large portion being obtained in the Nome District The bulk of the Nome output was mined from the Dime Creek pacers although consd- erable value made Bear and Sweepstakes and at Willow Creek. Until1916 no effort was made to this valuable succeeding year increased output efforts recovery tended [uNasfen bearing lodes were developed at Fair | mand . Considerable Tungsten was shipped from these properties between 1916 Schel
 lite recovered from of gold dredges Nome - s In nll about ST tons of Alaska Satellite concentrates have been mined and marketed. 1.
 StlO<f bearing ores 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 some years ago Promising lodes are located at various other points, notably the Kugruk River. where extensive development work has been done during the past two years although transportation difficulties have so far prevented shipment of { ?.
 .HnfjMonV in the form of stibnite is one of the most widely distributed minerals in Alaska ss The high price and ready market antimony during the war led to development of stbnte at several To- calities in the Nome District The facts in hand this district | |.
 Cooper deposits have been found on Seward Penin- sula and of these have been developed small way. few test shipments have been made : . Copper 1Odes have been located in places the Nokatak-kobuk region of Northern Alaska Consider able prospecting has been done deposits near Shugnak. in the middle Kobuk valley : . Were those deposits not isolated they would edly have been mined. 3.
 Gin Alaska has produced about 972 metallic which has nearly all from the paeers of the York District at the west of Seward Peninsula. num- Der of discoveries of lode tin have been made the York 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 trct The Lost River mine is the only property sui cently developed to justify the belief that will soon