The Yellowband is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Yellowband MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Yellowband
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nizina
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Sloughed open cuts and a few hundred m of underground workings.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Gold (native)
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Produced about 750 oz of gold.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Moffit, 1937
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Several auriferous quartz veins, generally less than 25 cm thick, along walls of felsic dikes cutting Jurassic-Cretaceous Valdez Group sedimentary rocks.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Lode: vein
References
Reference (Deposit): Moffit, F.H., 1937, Recent mineral developments in the Copper River region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 880, p. 97-109.
Reference (Deposit): Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.
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