Unnamed (northwest of headwaters of Humbolt Creek)

The Unnamed (northwest of headwaters of Humbolt Creek) is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed (northwest of headwaters of Humbolt Creek)

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Tin
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairhaven

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

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The altered zones contain quartz veins and are commonly iron-oxide stained. Clay alteration may be present.

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1970

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Shallow hand-dug prospect pits may be present.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Quartz veins in schist

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Till and others (1986) show bedrock here to be part of a polydeformed metapelitic schist that may be Precambrian in age. Sainsbury and others (1970) indicate that rusty and quartz-veined metasedimentary rocks are present over parts of this ridge spur. This and other nearby altered zones (BN048, BN050, BN052) have been interpreted to be localized along normal faults (Sainsbury and others, 1970) that are structurally above subsurface parts of the Oonatut Granite Complex (Hudson, 1979) which outcrops 11,000 feet to the northwest. Samples of rust-stained quartz veins and brecciated quartz veins contain 0.02 to 0.06 ppm Au and up to 500 ppm As (Sainsbury and others, 1970, Table 2). Base metals were only weakly to moderately anomalous in these samples but two had tin contents of 200 ppm. The Oonatut Granite is part of the western Seward Peninsula tin granite suite (Hudson and Arth, 1983).

Comment (Geology): Age = Probably Late Cretaceous; this occurrence may be associated with emplacement and crystallization of the Oonatut Granite Complex. K/Ar ages for the Oonatut Granite Complex are about 70 my (Hudson, 1979).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., Hudson, T.L., Kachadoorian, Reuben, Smith, T.E., Richards, T.R., and Todd, W.C., 1970, Geology, mineral deposits, and geochemical and radiometric anomalies, Serpentine Hot Springs area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1312-H, p. H1-H19.

Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., 1979, Igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Serpentine Hot Springs area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1079, 27 p.

Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., and Arth, J. G., 1983, Tin-granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 768-790.

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