The Busty Bell Mine is a gold, antimony, and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Gold, Antimony, Silver
Lat, Long: 65.01056, -147.56806
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Busty Bell Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Busty Bell Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Zinc
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: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Contact Zone Between Quartz Monzonite And Quartz Diorite Is Altered
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Powellite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Location): USGS MF-413, LOC. 20. MINE ON DIVIDE BETWEEN FLUME, FOX, AND SEATTLE CREEKS, ABOUT 1.5 MILES NW OF PEDRO CAMP. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Development): EARLY DEVELOPMENT IN 1911-12 AND POSSIBLY SOME GOLD MINED. SMALL-SCALE SURFACE PROSPECTING AND MINING IN 1950'S. SOME SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND EXPLORATION IN 1966-67.
Comment (Deposit): SULFIDE-BEARING VEINS, GOLD-SULFIDE-QUARTZ VEINS, AND CONTIGOUS ROCKS IN SILICIFIED SHEAR ZONES IN GRANITIC ROCKS AND SCHIST ROOF PENDANTS CONTAIN ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA, STIBNITE, GOLD, PYRITE, SCHEELITE, POWELLITE, SPHALERITE, TETRAHEDRITE, AND POSSIBLY MOLYBDENITE. NW TRENDING VEINS FILL FISSURES INDUCED BY PEDRO DOME GRANITIC INTRUSIVE TO NE. SCHEELITE AND POWELLITE LIMITED TO THIN CALCITE VEINLETS AND COATINGS ALONG JOINTS AND FRACTURE PLANES.
Comment (Geology): TRENCHING EXPOSED ROOF ZONE (?) OF QUARTZ MONZONITE PLUTONS, ROOF PENDANTS OF SILICIFIED SCHIST, AND AURIFEROUS QUARTZ STRINGERS AND VEINS. ALTERED ZONE 30 FT. WIDE IN BOTH SCHIST AND QUARTZ MONZONITE; BOTH ROCK TYPES SHEARED AND SILICIFIED, VEINS BORDER BOTH SIDES OF ALTERED ZONE IN SCHIST.
Comment (Deposit): MINE WAS OPERATED AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION IN 1973 AND PROBABLY OTHER YEARS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-413 (A-2), LOC. 20
Reference (Deposit): USGS OF 324, P. 4-5, 9-10, 22-29
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROF. PAPER 625-D, P. D13
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