Unnamed (northwest of Bend Mountain)

The Unnamed (northwest of Bend Mountain) is a silver and lead mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed (northwest of Bend Mountain)

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Primary: Lead

Location

State: Alaska
District: Chandalar

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

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Galena

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Grybeck, 1977

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Limited information describes this prospect only as an area of galena-bearing veins and stockworks (DeYoung, 1978). Its location appears to be in a narrow band of Devonian(?) quartz-muscovite-chlorite schist which separates Devonian calcareous schist and marble from a narrow northward extension of the Devonian Horace Mountain gneissic biotite granite (Brosgi and Reiser, 1964).

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Alaska Kardex No. 031-58D (Kardex is a card file mining claim information system located at the State of Alaska DNR Public Information Center in Fairbanks).

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic veins(?) (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Claims staked in 1972.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1973, Alaska 1:250,000-scale quadrangle map overlays showing mineral deposit locations, principal minerals, and number and type of claims: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 20-73, 95 overlays (updated in 1986, 1987).

Reference (Deposit): Grybeck, D.J., 1977, Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-166C, 41 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): DeYoung, J.H., Jr., 1978, Mineral resources map of the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-878-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Cruz, E.L., 1983, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-278, 91 p.

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