The Kagati Lake is a antimony, mercury, and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Kagati Lake MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kagati Lake
Commodity
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Mercury
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bethel
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification and oxidation.
Rocks
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age in Years: 71.100000+-2.100000
Dating Method: K-Ar
Material Analyzed: Biotite
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Orpiment
Ore: Realgar
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Tourmaline
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Sainsbury and MacKevett, 1965
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Exploration includes pits, trenches, and dozer stripping; surface mapping was completed in the 1950s (Sainsbury and MaKevett, 1965).
Comment (Geology): Age = Chron age is for host rock.
Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous or Tertiary. The mineralization postdates the host granitic pluton, which yielded a K/Ar age of 71.1 +/- 2.1 Ma on biotite (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Epithermal mercury- and antimony-bearing veins in granitic rock
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Kagati Lake prospect is within a Cretaceous granitic pluton (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978). It was discovered and prospected by 1927 (Malone, 1962) but explored mostly in the 1950s (Sainsbury and MacKevett, 1965). North-northwest-trending fractures and shear zones up to 1,200 feet long and approximately parallel to steep joints in the host granitic rock control mineralization. Cinnabar, some closely associated with realgar, stibnite, and minor orpiment, forms veinlets and fills fractures in the shear zones. Individual cinnabar masses are 2 to 24 inches wide, but are observed only for lengths up to 10 feet due to limited exposure. Quartz, some vuggy, and clay accompany the cinnabar; secondary antimony minerals and iron-oxides are also present. Frost (1990, p. C5) describes the veins as zoned with margins of blue-green to brown tourmaline needles extending into a core of quartz and calcite; cinnabar and stibnite crystals with some realgar and orpiment are scattered through quartz in the cores of the veins. Gold values up to 2.9 ppm were obtained on vein material (Frost, 1990; Gray and others, 1990).
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Condon, W.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Goodnews quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-447, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Cobb, E.H., 1977, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bethel, Goodnews, and Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-156, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Malone, Kevin, 1962, Mercury occurrences in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Circular 8131, 57 p.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L. and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1965, Quicksilver deposits of southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1187, 89 p.
Reference (Deposit): Frost, T.P., 1990, Geology and geochemistry of mineralization in the Bethel quadrangle, southwestern Alaska, in Goldfarb, R. J., Nash, J. T., and Stoeser, J. W., eds., Geochemical studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1950, p. C1-C9.
Reference (Deposit): Gray, J.E., Frost, T.P., Goldfarb, R.J., and Detra, D.E., 1990, Gold associated with cinnabar- and stibnite-bearing deposits and mineral occurrences in the Kuskokwim River Region, Alaska, in Goldfarb, R. J., Nash, J. T., and Stoeser, J. W., eds., Geochemical studies in Alaska by the U. S. Geological Survey, 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1950, p. D1-D6.
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