Mineral 
 
Antimony ore and concentrate 
 short tons, antimony content - 8Coal (bituminous) thousand short tons~ 927Gold
(recoverable content of ores, etc.)    troy ounces.. 27,325Lead (recoverable
content of ores, etc.)     short tons  14Natural gas million cubic feet.
11,267Peat short tons~ W 
W 
$6,953 
956 
4 
2,794 
W 
 10 W 925 $7,296 22,948 803 
 14,438 3,610 1,528 12 
Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels - 14,358 
Sand and gravel thousand short tons. 17,457 
Silver (recoverable content of ores, etc.) 
 thousand troy ounces - 7 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Barite, copper 
44,007 
21,793 
 
9 
 29,126 91,164 22,370 26,248 
 6 9 
(1966—67), gem stones, mercury, platinum-group metals, stone, and tin
and values indicated by symbol W          XX 
6,167 
XX 4,924 
Total XXTotal 1957—59 constant dollars XX 
82,683 
r 81,192 
XX 134,066 
XX P 129,905 
 Preliminary. r Revised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company
confidential data. 
XX Not applicable. 
 iProduction as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers). 
  69The Mineral Industry of Alaska 
 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of 
Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Division of Mines and Minerals
of the 
Alaska Department of Natural Resources for collecting information on all
minerals. 
 
 
By Kevin Malone,1 Donald P. Blasko,2 and James A. Williams 
 
 
 Crude oil production from offshore Cook Inlet fields, increasing steadily
throughout the year as development wells were brought in, dominated the news
of the mineral industry in 1967. Physical volume of production was more than
double that of 1966; by yearend the output reached 128,363 barrels per day
compared with an average daily rate of 39,300 barrels in 1966. Output from
the established Swanson River field increased 
slightly despite cutbacks due to an oil field worker's strike. The small
increase was attributable to continued successful operations in repressuring
the producing reservoir in the Swanson River field. 
 
 1 Physical scientist, Bureau of Mines, Juneau, Alaska. 
 2 Petroleum engineer, Bureau of Mines, Anchorage Field Office, Anchorage,
Alaska. 
 Director, Division of Mines and Minerals, State Department of Natural Resources,
College, Alaska. 
 
Table 1.—Mineral production in Alaska l 
 1966 1967 
 Quantity Value Quantity Value 
 (thousands) (thousands)