The Bonnell Prospect is a silver and gold mine located in Alaska.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
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Bonnell Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bonnell Prospect
Secondary: Bunnell
Secondary: Neversweat
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Zinc
Location
State: Alaska
District: Kantishna
Land Status
Land ownership: National Park
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Schist
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Early Cambrian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: USBM OFR 24-78, P. 4-20
Analytical Data: CHANNEL SAMPLE CONTAINED 30% PB+ZN AND 13.5 OZ AG PER TON
Analytical Data: MORRISON, D.A., 1964, P. 97-98
Analytical Data: FLOAT SAMPLE WITH CHALCOPYRITE CONTAINED 0.04 OZ AU AND 44.96 OZ AG PER TON
Analytical Data: 0.04 TO 0.34 OZ AU AND TRACE TO 11.10 OZ AG PER TON
Materials
Gangue: Rhyolite
Gangue: Schist
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ADGGS RI 83-12, P. 17
Comment (Commodity): GALENA, SPHALERITE, ARSENOPYRITE AND PYRITE LISTED AS GOLD-SILVER BEARING MINERALS
Comment (Location): PLOTTED FROM USGS BULL 849-F, P. 376; "SOUTH SIDE OF ELDORADO CR. AT THE JUNCTION OF REINHART CR." LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): OPEN ADIT MAPPED BY USBM IN 1977, ACTIVE PROSPECTING IN 1963
Comment (Deposit): COMPLEXLY FAULTED QUARTZ-SIDERITE VEINS UPTO 4 FT THICK INTRUDED ALONG CONTACT BETWEEN QUARTZ-PORPHYRY AND SCHIST; DISSEMINATED SULFIDES IN QUARTZ PORPHYRY; VEINS SHOW PINCH AND SWELL STRUCTURE ALONG STRIKE
Comment (Geology): MINERALIZED CONTACT BETWEEN QUARTZ PORPHYRY AND "BIRCH CREEK" SCHIST, MASSIVE AND DISSEMINATED SULFIDES IN IGNEOUS BODY AND IN VEINS ALONG CONTACT; ONLY CONTACT MINERALIZATION KNOWN IN THE AREA
Comment (Workings): EXPLORED BY 3 SHORT ADITS, 2 OF WHICH WERE CAVED BY 1977
References
Reference (Deposit): ADGGS RI 83-12, P. 17
Reference (Deposit): USBM OFR 24-78, P. 4-20 TO 4-22
Reference (Deposit): ADGGS GEOLOGIC REPORT 61, P. 26, 29
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 77-169A, P. 44 LOC. 2
Reference (Deposit): ADGGS OFR 98, P. 9-10, 28
Reference (Deposit): MORRISON, D.A, 1964, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF KANTISHNA AND VICINITY, KANTISHNA DISTRICT, ALASKA: ALASKA UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE, M.S. THESIS, P. 93, 97-98
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 849-F, P. 358, 376
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