Donlin Creek Property, Snow area

The Donlin Creek Property, Snow area is a antimony, gold, and silver mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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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June, 1994, Donlin Creek property, southwestern Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, Calista Corporation, Land Department, unpublished company report, 27 p.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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