Mineral Investigations in the Bristol Bay Mining District Study Area, Southwest Alaska, 2006

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.