The Donlin Creek Property, Snow area is a antimony, gold, and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Donlin Creek Property, Snow area MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Donlin Creek Property, Snow area
Commodity
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
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
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Alteration is restricted to intrusive rocks. Argillic and phyllic alteration; silicification; carbonate, and dickite alteration found locally.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface and underground: Trenching and drilling in 1989.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Property extends to northeast and southwest of the Snow area.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Stibnite, arsenopyrite, complex arsenic sulfosalts, and minor cinnabar and free gold occur in quartz veins and shear zones associated with alaskite dikes that cut Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group sedimentary rocks.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Retherford and McAtee, 1994
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Seven deposits along Donlin Creek including the Dome and Snow areas contain combined inferred reserves of 3.871 million tonnes at 3.15 g/tonne Au
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Epithermal veins associated with alaskite dikes
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction material) in the Iditarod and Ophir quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-576, 101 p.
Reference (Deposit): Retherford, R.M., and McAtee, June, 1994, Donlin Creek property, southwestern Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, Calista Corporation, Land Department, unpublished company report, 27 p.
Reference (Deposit): Miller, M.L., Bundtzen, T.K., Keith, W.J., Bailey, E.A., Bickerstaff, Damon, 1996, Geology and mineral resources of the Stuyahok area, part of Holy Cross A-4 and A-5 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-505-A, 30 p.
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