YUKON-CHARLEY RIVERS The World Turned Upside Down: A History of Mining on Coal Creek and Woodchopper Creek, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Alaska

1 U.S. Bureau of Mines, "Gold," in Mineral Facts and Problems (Bulletin 675), 1985 ed. 1.

2 Used here, the term "fabricated" refers to commercial gold — that which is worked as part of an industrial or artistic process, or refined for the purposes of private investment exclusive from all forms of gold bullion.

3 U.S. Bureau of Mines, "Gold," in Mineral Facts and Problems (Bulletin 675), 1985 ed. 1.

4 Troy ounces [ounce (troy)] rather than avoirdupois ounces [ounce (av)] measure precious metals. A troy ounce is equivalent to 1.097 ounces (av). There are 12 ounces (troy) to the English pound as opposed to 16 ounces (av).

5 J. Wells, Placer Examination, Technical Report #4, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 1972.

6 U.S. Bureau of Mines, Annual Report (1990).

7 U.S. Bureau of Mines, Annual Report (1990).

8 Clive McKeef, "NY gold prices slide to 18-year lows, gold miners sell," Reuters, December 9, 1997. (Located at http://www.pathfinder.com/money/latest/rbus/RB/1 997Dec09/685.html).

9 Hagler, Bailly & Company, Historical and Economic Analysis of Placer Mining in Interior Alaska, Draft Report. Bureau of Land Management, Office of Minerals Policy Analysis and Program Coordination (Washington DC, December 15, 1987), 2.9-2.10.

10 Public Law 96-847,94 Stat. 2371, 16 U.S.C. Sections 3101-3233.