Mineral Investigations in the Bristol Bay Mining District Study Area, Southwest Alaska, 2006
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In 2006, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) completed the first year of the Bristol Bay Mining Study Area. Investigators mapped or sampled approximately 60 mineral occurrences in the 27.2-million-acre Bristol Bay Mining Study Area, BLM collected and analyzed 309 rock chip, pan concentrate, and stream sediment samples during the investigation.