The Little Togiak Lake is a zinc and mercury mine located in Alaska.
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Little Togiak Lake MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Little Togiak Lake
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bristol Bay Region
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: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Eakins (1968, p. 13) collected several stream-sediment samples in this drainage that contained anomalous amounts of mercury and zinc. In addition, he found float of massive pods and veinlets of pyrite up to 3 inches thick in the stream. Bedrock along the stream includes several felsic dikes intruding argillite. Dikes and faults in the area generally trend east-west.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This occurrence is in Wood-Tikchik State Park.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)
Comment (Geology): Age = Possibly Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary. Mineralization may be related to the felsic dikes, which are inferred to be part of a regionally extensive Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary plutonic suite (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Eakins, 1968
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Reconnaissance stream-sediment sampling has been completed in the area (Eakin, 1968).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Eakins, G.R., 1968, A geochemical investigation of the Wood River-Tikchik Lakes area, southwestern Alaska: Alaska Division Mines and Minerals Geochemical Report 17, 31 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hoare, J.M., and Coonrad, W.L., 1978, Geologic map of the Goodnews and Hagemeister Island quadrangles region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-9-B, two sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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