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The Porcupine Creek gold placer area was recently made famous by the popular Discovery Channel television series "Gold Rush Alaska." This publication is a reprint of the rare US Geological Survey (USGS) Bulletin 699 from 1919. It includes maps and pictures as well as geological and historical mining information on the area. Reprinted and published by Miningbooks.com which is bringing hundreds of rare mining publications back into print.
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Excerpt from The Porcupine Placer District, Alaska The Porcupine gold field, one of the most important placer districts of southeastern Alaska, lies in a rugged mountain belt drained by the Chilkat, a river emptying into Lynn Canal. The district embraces an area of about 100 square miles, its central point being approximately in latitude 580 25' and longitude 1860 (see map, Pl. II.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This history of placer mining of the gold deposits of east central Alaska, near the town of Circle, covers its development from 1893 to date and includes a summary of the regional geology and of the gravels of each creek.