The Unnamed (headwaters of Independence Creek) is a silver mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (headwaters of Independence Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (headwaters of Independence Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Circle
Land Status
Not available
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:
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: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Galena
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Foster and others, 1984.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface samples taken.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Galena(?), arsenopyrite(?) and gold-colored sulfides were found along the margin of a vuggy, milky-white quartz vein in brecciated silicified country rock. Samples showed 15 ppm Ag and 1,500 ppm Pb (Foster and others, 1984). Bedrock in the Independence Creek drainage is the Lower Schist unit described by Wiltse and others (1995) as a medium to dark gray and medium greenish-gray, fine- to medium-grained, commonly slightly calcareous quartz-muscovite schist, with lesser amounts of quartzose?porphyroblastic albite-chlorite schist and chlorite schist. The bedrock is?cut by numerous quartz veins.
References
Reference (Deposit): Foster, H.L., O'Leary, R.M, McDougal, C.M, and Menzie, W.D., 1984, Analyses of rock samples from the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-479, 126 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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