The Miller is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Miller MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Miller
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Willow Creek
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
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Capps, 1915
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Developments include two cabins and a tunnel driven 30 ft along the altered alaskite dike. Capps (1915) reports that only assessment work has been done and no value for the ore can be determined because assays are said to have given conflicting returns.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = unidentified sulfides
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = unidentified sulfides
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = An altered alaskite dike cuts Jurassic amphibolite and foliated quartz diorite containing local, minor quartz-feldspar gneiss. Locally this dike has been called a vein, and it was only after thin-section analysis was it discovered to be a dike. The 'ore' is white to greenish-gray in color and in places contains considerable sulfides. The dike is not well defined, and little of it is exposed (Capps, 1915).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Jurassic or younger; dike is in Jurassic metamorphic rocks.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials in the Anchorage quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1095, 184 p.
Reference (Deposit): Capps, S.R., 1915, The Willow Creek District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 607, 86 p.
Reference (Deposit): Katz, F.J., 1911, A reconnaissance of Willow Creek gold region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 480-G, p. 139-152.
Reference (Deposit): Capps, S.R., 1914, Gold lodes and placers of the Willow Creek district: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592, p. 245-272.
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