The Lambert's Bar is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Lambert's Bar MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lambert's Bar
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bristol Bay
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
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Not applicable
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Unknown
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = No reserves
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Unknown
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This locality appeared on a map in Cobb (1973). The text did not provide any information about the site. Cobb and Reed (1981) mention gold in most river bars of the Mulchatna River, with most prospecting occurring around the late 1890's or early 1900's.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Lambert's Bar is a placer gold occurrence (mine ?) on the Mulchatna River. The most abundant bedrock in the areas upstream of the locality is unit KJs. Nelson and others (1983) described unit KJs as interbedded lithic graywacke, silty sandstone, black shale , and local conglomerate. Irregular quartz segregations and veinlets are locally present. Scattered stocks and locally abundant dikes of intermediate to felsic composition intrude these sedimentary rocks. Adjacent to some of the larger igneous bodies are narrow contact aureoles of pelitic hornfels. Unit KJs is intruded (locally) by various Cretaceous to Tertiary plutons. The plutons include a quartz monzonite. One pluton yielded a potassium-argon age on hornblende of 71.3 +/- 2.1 m.y. (Eakins and others, 1978). Also present is Unit Tv of Nelson and others (1983) which includes: rhyolitic breccia, ash-flow tuff, flows, and intrusive rocks and subordinate mafic to intermediate flows. Potassium-argon ages for unit Tv range from 56.2 to 62.7 m.y. indicating a Tertiary age for these rocks (Eakins and others, 1978).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1973, B 1374
Comment (Geology): Age = The placer gold is Quaternary, the source of gold could come from a variety of rocks with diverse ages.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Reed, B.L., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Iliamna, Lake Clark, Lime Hills, and McGrath quadrangles, Alaska - Supplement to Open-File Report 76-485: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-1343-A, 25 p.
Reference (Deposit): Nelson, W.H., Carlson, C., and Case, J.E., 1983, Geologic map of the Lake Clark quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1114-A, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1973, Placer deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1374, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Eakins, G.R., Gilbert W.G., and Buntzen, T.K., 1978, Preliminary bedrock geology and mineral resource potential of west-central Lake Clark quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 118, 15 p.
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