Riverside

The Riverside is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Riverside

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead

Location

State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek

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

Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Model Name: Skarn Cu

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Narrow phyllic alteration haloes around and in porphyry dikes typically consists of sericite, quartz, and pyrite. In addition, skarn alteration minerals are garnet, pyroxene, and epidote.

Rocks

Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Active

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks in the area of the Riverside prospect are Triassic, redbed sandstone, conglomerate and limestone that have been intruded by a hornblende-quartz diorite dike. The deposit is in hornfelsed bedded rocks and consists chiefly of quartz-sulfide veins, and stockworks, and of sulfide disseminations. The sulfide minerals are arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, pyrrhotite, and sphalerite. Small, sulfide-bearing skarn deposits are in marble adjacent to the dike (unpublished report by Addwest Minerals International Ltd., 1997). Samples contain 0.02 to 0.72 ounce of gold per ton and 0.3 to 2.10 ounces of silver per ton (Ross, 1933). The relatively high gold and silver values may be due to supergene enrichment. A fault may truncate the deposit to the south. The Riverside deposit is similar in mineralogy and type to other deposits satellitic to the Golden Zone deposit (HE043).

Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous (70 -65 Ma), assuming that the deposit is satellitic to the Golden Zone deposit (HE043).

Comment (Deposit): Model Number = 18b, 22c

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Cu skarn; Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; models 18b, 22c)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hawley and Clark, 1974

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Mainly surface workings. There are reports of a 10-foot tunnel and 15-foot shaft that are now caved. Recent geochemical exploration has identified a broad soil anomaly that outlines the deposit. Samples contain 0.02 to 0.72 ounce of gold per ton and 0.3 to 2.10 ounces of silver per ton (Ross, 1933).

References

Reference (Deposit): Townsend, H.H., 1925, Assay returns: Alaska Territorial Dept. of Mines Itinerary Report 195-48, 4 p.

Reference (Deposit): Capps, S.R., 1919, Mineral resources of the upper Chulitna region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 692-D, p. 207-232.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Healy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-1062, 113 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hawley, C.C., and others, 1978, Mineral appraisal of lands adjacent to Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska. Contract No. JO166107: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 24-78, 274 p., 12 sheets.

Reference (Deposit): Hawley, C.C., and Clark, A.L., 1974, Geology and mineral deposits of the upper Chulitna district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 758-B, p. 1-47, 2 sheets, scale 1:12,000 and 1:48,000.

Reference (Deposit): Ross, C.P., 1933, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849, p. 289-467.

Reference (Deposit): Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.

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