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Cassiterite Creek

By Alaska Science Center
Scientist kneeling to collect samples from tin placer tailings. Yellow tube, trowel, buckets near water, dirt and rocks.
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Scientist sieving a sample of tin placer tailings in Cassiterite Creek on the western Seward Peninsula.

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Public Domain.

Photo by Susan Karl, U.S. Geological Survey