Yellowhorn

The Yellowhorn is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Yellowhorn

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Silver

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: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: There is a color anomaly associated with the prospect due to weathering of pyrite.

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Tuck, 1938

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface trenches and cuts, one short tunnel and one 60-foot tunnel that missed the lode.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rock at this prospect is miceous schist of unknown age. Foliation strikes 58 SE and dips 18 N. The deposit is a 4-foot-wide shear zone consisting, from the top down, of a one-foot-wide quartz vein, with three feet of schist cut by small quartz seams, and quartz stringers. Most of the quartz is sugary and contains vugs lined with terminated crystals. Good values of gold were panned from the weathered material, but there was some indication that in the unweathered material, the gold was in the sulfides, rather than free-milling (Tuck, 1936).

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Shear zones in this area having shallow northward dips are part of a thrust zone best exposed underground at the Denali Copper prospect (HE191).

References

Reference (Deposit): Smith, T.E., 1981, Geology of the Clearwater Mountains, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological "&" Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 60, 72 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Tuck, Ralph, 1938, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-B, p. 109-131.

Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1912, Headwater regions of Gulkana and Susitna Rivers, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 498, 82 p.

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