The Snipe is a uranium and thorium mine located in Alaska.
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Snipe MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Snipe
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: Thorium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chistochina
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
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: Marked by pyrite, quartz, tourmaline, and sericitized plagioclase.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Tourmaline
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Opal
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Additional information can be obtained from Ahtna Minerals in Anchorage, Alaska.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = WGM Inc.,1979
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Shallow hand trenching in three areas.
Comment (Geology): Ore Material = thorium are concentrated in iron oxides
Comment (Geology): Ore Material = Uranium
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Snipe prospect is in a coarse-grained potassic-diorite phase of the Pennsylvanian to Permian, Ahtell pluton, possibly near a contact with the Grubstake quartz monzonite phase (Richter, 1966). The prospect consists of vuggy quartz-tourmaline vein material bordered by bleached, clay-rich alteration zones in Indian Creek quartz monzonite, a phase of the Ahtell pluton defined by WGM Inc. (1979). Scintillometer readings vary up to 3,500 cps (over 8 times background) and grab samples contain up to 730 ppm uranium and 8,650 ppm thorium (WGM Inc.,1979). The prospect is limited to a 30 foot by 50 feet outcrop in a stream cut. (WGM Inc., 1979).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Vein-type uranium (?)
Comment (Geology): Age = Probably associated with emplacement of Richter's (1966) Permian or possibly Jurassic, diorite to quartz-diorite complex.
References
Reference (Deposit): WGM Inc., 1979, 1978 Annual Progress Report, Uranium Exploration, Ahtell Creek Area, Volume I: WGM Inc., 39 p., appendices and 4 maps. (Report available, Ahtna Mineral Co., Anchorage, Alaska).
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., 1966, Geology of the Slana district on south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 2l, 36b p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
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