West Fork

The West Fork is a antimony mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: West Fork

Commodity

Primary: Antimony

Location

State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Schist fragments are weakly argillized, bleached, and veined with quartz (Dashevsky, 1993).

Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The following geologic description is summarized from a report by Sam Dashevsky (1993) on work done by American Copper and Nickel Company on the Eagle Creek property in the early 1990's. Five lines of soil samples spaced 600 feet apart define a 2,500-foot by 1,500-foot area of anomalous antimony; within it there is a 1,000-foot by 1,400-foot zone of weakly elevated silver. Rock fragments in soil are quartz-mica schist that is argillized, bleached, and veined with quartz. (This area was mapped by Newberry and others (1996) as Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Dashevsky, 1993

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = In 1992, American Copper and Nickel Company conducted a soil survey that identified an area with anomalous antimony in the soil (Dashevsky, 1993).

References

Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Dashevsky, S.S., 1993, Eagle Creek project (Au), Fairbanks district, Alaska: American Copper and Nickel Company, Inc., 60 p. (Report held by Sam Dashevsky, Northern Associates Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; can be examined with permission from current lease holders).

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