The Dakota is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Dakota MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dakota
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tungsten
Secondary: Antimony
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mertie, 1918
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A short adit was driven before 1916; claim activity dates back to 1900 (Heiner and Porter, 1972).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The location is at a bold outcrop of marble about a quarter mile below Twin Mountain Creek (shown as Ttwin Mtn Ck on the map) on the north side of Boulder Creek. At this site, a short adit is driven into apparently barren marble. Strongly ankeritized rock is evident nearby in placer tailings. A few small quartz veins that strike north-northeast occur in the bluffs on the south side of Boulder Creek, opposite the short adit. Mertie (1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]) reported a 35-foot-long adit and quartz-calcite veins in marble with practically no sulfides at the Dakota prospect. Alaska claim files (Heiner and Porter, 1972,Kardex site Kx 52-105) list 16 Dakota claims staked for gold, antimony, and tungsten by W. Cochrane in about 1900. It is possible that better mineralization was exposed but is now buried by placer tailings. Gold-bearing bedrock mineralization (NM167) was found on the bench north of the Dakota prospect by Kennecott Exploration Company in 1992 and 1993.
References
Reference (Deposit): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1918, Lode mining and prospecting on Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, p. 425-449.
Reference (Deposit): Heiner, L.E., and Porter, Eve, 1972, Alaska Mineral Properties, volume 2: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 24, 669 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
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