The Merinser Occurrence is a antimony and mercury mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Merinser Occurrence MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Merinser Occurrence
Secondary: Slippery Creek Stibnite Deposit
Commodity
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Copper
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
Discovery Year: 1921
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Fault Contact Between Sedimentary Rock And Dike
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation Products Of Fe & Cu Coat Fracture Planes And Rock Fragments
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SAMPLE OF ALTERED SEDIMENTARY ROCK SHOWED 1.86% HG, USGS BULL 836, P. 321
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Mercury
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): STIBNITE IN THIN DECOMPOSED BED WITHIN BLACK SHALE UNIT NEAR CONTACT WITH SERPENTENIZED IGNEOUS BODY; ALTERED SEDIMENTARY ROCK IN FAULT CONTACT WITH FELSIC DIKE CONTAINS QUARTZ-CALCITE SEAMS WITH CINNABAR, NATIVE HG, FE AND CU SULFIDES
Comment (Workings): SMALL OPEN CUTS
Comment (Geology): PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTS AND VOLCANICS CUT BY LIGHT COLORED TERTIARY DIKES; ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK NEAR CONTACTS. BK, CK AND GRAY BANDED SHALES AND SILICEOUS BEDS INTERSTRATIFIED WITH LAVA FLOWS.
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT IS SIMILAR TO SLATE CREEK DEPOSIT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Location): LOCATION GIVEN IS OF CABIN NEAR THE OCCURRENCE LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): AREA WAS PROSPECTED IN THE 1930'S; LATER ABANDONED
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 836, P. 313-314, 321-322
Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 8252, P. 50, 55
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 1246, P. 230
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 77-169A, P. 46 LOC. 38
Reference (Other Database): BAG-MF-366-28
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