Collection Name	Regina Knill Cope Collection
Identifier	UAF-1991-156-16
Title	Water supply (a creek)
Description	Water serves a variety of purposes in placer mining operations. Primarily, it is used to separate the valuable from the gangue material. Water is also used for the following associated operations; hydraulic stripping, hydraulic elevating, hydraulic mining, stacking tailings, artificial thawing and dredge floatation . Information was obtained from Cook, Donald J., Placer Mining in Alaska. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 1983. p. 64.
Subject.TGM	Streams Hydraulic mining Pipelines
Location	McCarthy (Alaska)
Region	Southcentral Alaska
Time Period	1896 to 1913 1913 to 1939
Type	Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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Water supply (a creek)

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