The Parker is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Parker MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Parker
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Stewart, 1933
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The Parker vein was developed by a number of open cuts and by a 70-foot-deep inclined shaft (Stewart, 1933, p. 145). In 1933, drifting along the vein began, both to the north and south, on the 50-foot level below the shaft (Stewart, 1933, p. 145).
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Also see the Blue Bonanza mine (FB006).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This occurrence consists of an irregular, 1- to 6-inch-thick, gold-bearing quartz vein oriented N. 15 E., dipping 55 W. (Chapman and Foster, 1969, p. D19; Stewart, 1933, p. 145). The quartz is coarsely crystalline and contains small amounts of metallic sulfides (Stewart, 1933, p. 145). Bedrock in this area, on the northern flanks of Ester Dome, consists of two units of the Fairbanks Schist: a quartz-muscovite schist and an amphibolite-biotite schist (Newberrry and others, 1996). The vein was developed by a number of open cuts and by a 70-foot-deep inclined shaft (Stewart, 1933, p. 145).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Schist-hosted gold-quartz vein
References
Reference (Deposit): Chapman, R.M., and Foster, R.L., 1969, Lode mines and prospects in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D, 25 p., 1 plate.
Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Stewart, B.D., 1933, Mining investigations and mine inspection in Alaska, Biennium ending March 31, 1933: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Annual Report 1933B, 196 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.
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