Bursik and Kern (King Mountain)

The Bursik and Kern (King Mountain) is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Bursik and Kern (King Mountain)

Commodity

Primary: Gold

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

Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Bleaching of marble and oxidation.

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Limonite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mertie, 1918

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = One 85-foot shaft (at an elevation of 700 feet), a 20-foot adit (at an elevation of 900 feet), and shallow shafts or pits were dug by Bursik and Kern before 1916 (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 429]). More recent work has probably not been done in this area.

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

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Eight claims owned by Bursik and Kern were located on the west and southwest flank of King Mountain (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 429]; Cathcart, 1922, locality 6, figure 18). On the claims, bleached (?) marble probably contains lenses of white quartz, and iron-stained quartz and schist were reported in shallow shafts. The owners of the property reported that more than 100 assays from an 85-foot shaft ranged from 2.50 to 3.75 dollars per ton (about 0.125 to 0.175 ounce of gold per ton). Cathcart (1922, p. 238) found only a little mineralized schist and marble in a cut; no assays were made. The Anvil Creek fault transects the area nearby. This fault is a through-going, high-angle structure that juxtaposes different types of graphitic schist in this area (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]). Bedrock at the prospect is mostly graphitic schist probably of early Paleozoic protolith age (Hummel, 1962 [MF 247]; Sainsbury, Hummel, and Hudson, 1972 [OFR 72-326]; Till and Dumoulin, 1994; Bundtzen and others, 1994).

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Hummel, C.L., and Hudson, Travis, 1972, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nome quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-326, 28 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., and Dumoulin, J.A, 1994, Geology of Seward Peninsula and St. Lawrence Island, in Plafker, G., and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, DNAG, v. G-1, p. 141-152.

Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome C-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-247, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

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.

Reference (Deposit): Cathcart, S.H., 1922, Metalliferous lodes in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722, p. 163-261.

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