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Chicken Creek

By Alaska Science Center
Scientist in orange shirt and hat with gold pan in hands. Seven buckets scattered around shallow creek and small hills.
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Scientist checking a gold pan for gold and critical minerals in placer tailings on lower Chicken Creek near Flat, Alaska, in the Kuskokwim Mountains. A sample was collected from legacy gold placer tailings at this site and 7 others in the Flat mining district to determine the critical mineral contents of tailings from which only gold has been removed.

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Public Domain.

Photo by Susan Karl, U.S. Geological Survey