Egegik beach Occurrence, Bristol Bay Mining District, Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USAi

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Egegik beach Occurrence	Occurrence
Bristol Bay Mining District	Mining District
Lake and Peninsula Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: The Egegik placer occurrence is along the beach of Bristol Bay about nine miles south of Goose Point at the mouth of Egegik Bay. The occurrence is in about the middle of section 27, T. 24 S., R. 51 W., of the Seward Meridian; it is location 2 of Cobb (1972) and MacKevett and Holloway (1977). The location is accurate within one-half mile.
Geology: Traces of flour gold occur in thin layers up to six inches thick of titaniferous magnetite-rich sand that lay along the strand line of the modern sand and gravel beach, among sand dunes, and buried in older deposits inland (Berryhill, 1963). The deposits cover less than an acre. Samples collected in two studies by the U.S. Bureau of Mines contained 4.3 to 83.3 pounds of iron per cubic yard, 1.6 to 27.6 pounds of TiO2 per cubic yard, and trace to 0.09 parts per million gold (Berryhill, 1963; Kimball, 1972).
Workings: Samples collected in two studies by the U.S. Bureau of Mines contained 4.3 to 83.3 pounds of iron per cubic yard, 1.6 to 27.6 pounds of TiO2 per cubic yard, and trace to 0.09 parts per million gold (Berryhill, 1963; Kimball, 1972).
Age: Quaternary.
Production: Apparently none.

Commodities (Major) - Au, Ti; (Minor) - Fe
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Shoreline placer Ti and placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; models 39c and 39a).

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	NK002

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