Unnamed (north tributary to Unaluk River)

The Unnamed (north tributary to Unaluk River) is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed (north tributary to Unaluk River)

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum

Location

State: Alaska
District: Goodnews Bay

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: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:

Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Fechner, 1988

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = No workings have been reported at this occurrence.

Comment (Geology): Age = If the mineralization is epigenetic, then it is probably Early Jurassic or younger. It can be as old as the nearby pluton, which is correlated with nearby mafic plutons that have been K/Ar dated as Jurassic in age (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = On June 1, 1972, Allen L. Clark (U. S. G. S.) told E. H. Cobb that lode gold had been found at this location (Cobb, 1980, p.33 [OF 80-909]). Cobb (1972 [MF 362]) showed this location to be on the the south side of an east-west oriented mountain between the Kinegnak River and the headwaters of the Unaluk River. It is at an elevation of about 750 feet on the north side of a saddle marking the approximate south contact of a mafic pluton and sedimentary rocks (Hoare and Coonrad, 1979). The mafic plutons in the general area are gabbroic rocks that locally contain olivine and show compositional layering. They have yielded Jurassic K/Ar ages that range from 159 to 187 Ma (Hoare and Coonrad, 1978). The country rocks intruded by the pluton are Paleozoic to Mesozoic sedimentary rocks that include limestone near the contact just to the west of this locality. Fechner (1988) mapped and sampled the general area. A pan-concentrate sample from a saddle within the pluton contained 240 ppb Au and 125 ppb Pt; a chert sample from the contact zone at this location contained 70 ppb Au; and three small flakes of gold were recovered from a 0.1-cubic-yard sample of alluvium from a creek draining the east side of the pluton.

References

Reference (Deposit): Fechner, S.A., 1988, Bureau of Mines mineral investigation of the Goodnews Bay mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1-88, 230 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Hagemeister Island quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-362, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 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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