The Perrault is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Perrault MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Perrault
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
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: Yellow-green stains of antimony-oxide are abundant (Chapin, 1914, p. 329).
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = George Perrault located the Minnie and Aroostook claims and made a surface opening on a lode striking N 80 W that dipped 60 S. Chapin (1914) reported that these workings were caved by 1913.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Chapin, 1914
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the prospect was discovered by George Perrault at some time prior to 1912 and consisted of the Minnie and Aroostook claims (Times Publishing Company, 1912; Chapman and Foster, 1969).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Gold is found in three or four nearly parallel veins of quartz enclosing masses of schist (Chapin, 1914, p. 329). Limonitic material taken from the dump is said to occur in veinlike bodies parallel to the quartz vein; it contains small amounts of both gold and silver (Chapin, 1914, p. 329). Narrow reticulating veinlets of stibnite occur in both quartz and schist, and yellow-green stains of antimony-oxide is abundant (Chapin, 1914, p. 329). The high grade portion of the shear zone was 2-feet-wide (Times Publishing Company, 1912, p. 22). The shear zone strikes N 80 W and dips 60 S. in quartz-mica schist (Chapin, 1914, p. 329).? the prospect was examined in 1942 as a possible source of antimony but did not exhibit sufficient antimony mineralization to warrant further exploration or development (Killeen and Mertie, 1951).
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = unknown Ag.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Gold-quartz veins.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = unknown Ag
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
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): Times Publishing Company, 1912, Tanana Magazine, Quartz Edition: Fairbanks, Alaska 76 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): 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): 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 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): Chapin, Theodore, 1914, Lode mining near Fairbanks, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592-J, p. 321-355.
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