The Lynx Claim is a tungsten and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Lynx Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lynx Claim
Secondary: Glacier Creek
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
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: Past Producer
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: Albitization; introduction of pyrite and arsenopyrite in schist.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mertie, 1918
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A 60-foot shaft and several short adits were driven during or before 1920; the deposit was discovered before 1903 (Collier and others, 1908).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This deposit consists of sulfide- and scheelite-bearing quartz veins, layers, and lenses as much as 6 inches thick separated by sulfide-bearing schist. The quartz bodies are parallel to the foliation in the schist. The deposit was first reported by Collier and others (1908, p. 193) as a gold prospect. Selected samples contained as much as 0.5 ounce of gold per ton. The same locality was probably reported as the Lynx claim by Mertie (1918 [B 662-I, p. 457]). The deposit was developed by a 60-foot shaft. Scheelite, quartz, and sulfidized schist were run through a sluice box, and about 600 pounds of scheelite were recovered. A dredge working below the deposit recovered scheelite in placer gold concentrates. Cathcart (1922, p. 241) reported a 20-foot-long adit at about the same location. The adit exposed a 1-foot quartz-feldspar vein within highly sulfidized schist walls. Cathcart (1922, p. 234, 241-242) described other nearby deposits, including mineralized schist similar to Sophie Gulch (NM208), in a gully south of Glacier Creek immediately above Snow Gulch. At that location, a quartz-feldspar vein cuts contorted sulfidized schist. Anderson (1947) reported scheelite and stibnite in prospects in the Glacier Creek--Snow Gulch area.
Comment (Geology): Age = Mid-Cretaceous; veins cross cut regionally metamorphosed schist; see NM207.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).
References
Reference (Deposit): Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1918, Placer mining on Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, p. 451-458.
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): 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): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Reference (Deposit): Anderson, Eskil, 1947, Mineral occurrences other than gold deposits in northwestern Alaska: Alaska Territorial Division of Mines Pamphlet 5-R, 48 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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