Special Publication: Availability of Land for Mineral Exploration and Development in Northern Alaska, 1986

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• Personal Author:
  Maas, Kenneth M.
• Description:
  The Bureau of Mines inventoried the land availability for mineral exploration and development in northern Alaska and compared this land with known mineral terranes and mineral deposits to quantify the potential for favorable location of mining claims for metalliferous mineral deposits. This report includes thirty-three 1:500,000-scale maps that depict land availability, and the accompanying text and tables relate availability acreage to areas of favorable mineral terranes. Three categories of land availability and ownership are identified, along with 12 subcategories of land status. Available land comprises approximately 14.5 million acres or 16% of the 90.3-million-acre study area; land available with restrictions accounts for 7.5 million acres or 8%; and unavailable land encompasses 68.3 million acres or 76%. Mineral terranes underlie 37.8 million acres or 42% of the study area; 5.3 million acres or 14% are available for mineral location, 2.8 million acres or 7% are available with restrictions, and 29.7 million acres or 79% are unavailable. There are 500 known mineral deposits or occurrences within the study area. This includes 271 lode deposits, of which 171 lie within a recognized mineral terrane and 55 are on available land. The remaining 229 are placer deposits. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Minerals Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Special Publication
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  AFOC - Alaska Field Operations Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  75 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10005708
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB88/122775; :1-34
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB88/122775
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:32408a3ce2158557f2b66771bc8502027614ae7d8ff203453ff0c373ec59abb81fe4e41e923b30ad3c4b1a874ddae8b8c1add57a9cc5b4e642a3205eee326f2f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206108/cdc_206108_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.91 MB ]