The North Star is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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North Star MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: North Star
Secondary: Skoogy Gulch
Secondary: Big Lead
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Antimony
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: 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: Schist iron-stained.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hill, 1933
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Several feet of tunnels and shallow shafts (Hill, 1933).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Gold-quartz veins.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This prospect consists of gold-bearing quartz veins in heavily silicified schist. Hill (1933, p. 116-117) visited the area in 1931 and described the prospect: A shallow shaft was driven on a vein trending N 84 W and dipping 85 S, which yielded ore valued at $5,000. As exposed in the tunnel, this vein is from 1 to 4 inches wide and consists of white quartz frozen to a dark, heavily silicified schist. Some of the quartz carries minor sulfides, but in general it has no visible metallic mineralization. This vein cuts across a lenticular mass of quartz lying parallel to the schistosity, which dips 15 SE. A 30-inch aplite dike that strikes north and dips 15 E is also cut by this vein. In open cuts, the vein was observed to be 3 to 6 inches wide and in places lies along the contact of schist and porphyritic granite. About 140 feet north of this vein, another 5-inch quartz vein in schist was said to have produced a ton of $35 ore (1.69 ounces of gold per ton).? When Hill (1933) visited the site in 1931, the Big Lead vein was exposed along an old wagon road on the east side of Skoogy Gulch just south of a cabin. Several feet of tunnels were driven on this vein and an engineer that visited the site estimated that the whole ore body exposed in these tunnels would average about $4 per ton (0.19 ounces of gold per ton). The tunnels were caved by 1931, but the material on the dump consisited of heavily iron-stained mineralized schist and quartzite. One dump site contained boulders dominated by arsenopyrite and stibnite. There is evidence of silicification and mineralization over a width of 75.5 feet. The mineralized zone shows an alternation of schist, altered dike rocks, quartz veinlets, and faults. A sample of granular, highly altered, brick-red dike rock containing irregular veinlets and bunches of manganese-oxide; it assayed $0.43 per ton (0.02 ounces of gold per ton).
References
Reference (Deposit): Prindle, L.M., 1910, Auriferous quartz veins in the Fairbanks district: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 442-F, p. 210-229.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-819, 241 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-413, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Killeen, P.L., and Mertie, J.B., 1951, Antimony ore in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 51-46, 43 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-633, 72 p.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1913, Lode mining near Fairbanks, in Prindle, L.M., A geologic reconnaissance of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 525, p. 153-216.
Reference (Deposit): Martin, G.C., 1920, The Alaska mining industry in 1918: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 712-A, p. 1-52.
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): Smith, P.S., 1913, Lode mining near Fairbanks: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 542-F, p. 137-202.
Reference (Deposit): Freeman, C.J., 1992, 1991 Golden Summit project final report, volume 2: Historical summary of lode mines and prospects in the Golden Summit project area, Alaska: Avalon Development Corp., 159 p. (Report held by Freegold Recovery Inc. USA, Vancouver, British Columbia.)
Reference (Deposit): Hill, J.M., 1933, Lode deposits of the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849-B, p. 29-163.
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