Red Head #1

The Red Head #1 is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Red Head #1

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Titanium
Secondary: Iron

Location

State: Alaska
District: Copper River

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Ilmenite
Ore: Garnet

Comments

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This prospect consists of heavy minerals, including gold, in wave-formed beach placer deposits. Zones of heavy-mineral concentration in the sand can reach three feet thick. One such one-foot-thick zone overlying pebbles of felsic intrusive rock, greenstone, graywacke and slate was sampled and contained over 10% garnet (Jansons and others, 1984). Two 0.1 cubic-yard samples of the beach sand contained <0.03 ppm to 0.0002 oz. Au/ton.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface workings. Heavy-mineral concentration zones contained over 10% garnet. Two 0.1 cubic-yard samples of the beach sand contained <0.03 ppm to 0.0002 oz. Au/ton (Jansons and others, 1984).

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Jansons and others, 1984

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Not more than 500 oz. Au produced (Cobb, 1979: OF 79-973).

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Site is in the Chugach National Forest.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Beach placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)

Comment (Commodity): Gangue = Beach sand

Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.

References

Reference (Deposit): Jansons, Uldis, Hoekzema, R.B., Kurtak, J.M., and Fechner, S.A., 1984, Mineral occurrences in the Chugach National Forest, Southcentral Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 5-84, 218 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Cordova quadragle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report OF 79-973, 73 p.

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