The East Scrafford is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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East Scrafford MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: East Scrafford
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
Land Status
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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: The intrusive at the surface is moderately to strongly silicified, locally bleached, and iron stained. The schist country rock is strongly silicified at the intrusive contact. Downhole, the sill is cut by sparse hairline quartz veinlets. In the shear zone, intrusive fragments are highly silicified and locally altered to clay (Dashevsky, 1993).
Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = In the 1970's, Cantu Minerals Association trenched at the East Scrafford site in pursuit of the eastern extension of the Scrafford shear (FB077). In 1991-93, American Copper and Nickel Company mapped the trench exposure, took soil samples, and drilled two reverse-circulation holes (Dashevsky, 1993). The gold assays of samples did not encourage them to continue.
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. In the shallow subsurface at this prospect, a 30-foot-thick, medium-grained, equigranular granite and quartz porphyry sill intrudes quarz-mica schist and micaceous quartzite. The intrusion is truncated by a major fault, believed to be the eastern extension of the Scrafford shear zone (see FB077). The Scrafford shear trends N. 80-85 E. and dips 55-60 S. (Robinson and Bundtzen,1982). The upper intrusive contact is irregular and sub-horizontal and lies under 10 feet of schist and 4 feet of loess. At the surface, chip samples across the 30-foot exposure of the intrusion, are enriched in gold and arsenic; the samples average 0.024 ounce of gold per ton and 2,060 to 6,490 ppm arsenic. No significant antimony values are reported. Schist in the wallrock is weakly to unmineralized. The Scrafford shear contains as much as 350 ppb gold, 2,480 ppm arsenic, and 102 ppm antimony. Drilling indicated that the quartz porphyry sill does not exceed 210 ppb gold. The deeper intersection of the sill and the shear, which is composed largely of intrusive and quartz clasts in gouge, averages 0.029 ounce of gold per ton over 35 feet and 0.1 to 1.0 percent arsenic. The intrusive at the surface is moderately to strongly silicified, locally bleached, and iron stained. The schist country rock is strongly silicified at the intrusive contact. Downhole, the sill is cut by sparse, hairine quartz veinlets. In the shear zone, intrusive fragments are highly silicified and locally altered to clay.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Dashevsky, 1993
References
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).
Reference (Deposit): Robinson, M.S., and Bundtzen, T. K., 1982, Geology of the Scrafford antimony-gold lode deposit, Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 173, 7 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:120.
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