Nars Anderson

The Nars Anderson is a gold mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Nars Anderson
Secondary: Dorando

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

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

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

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Comments

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Smith, 1913 (B 525)

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The Nars claim was staked on September 14, 1911 by Otto Nars (Times Publishing Company, 1912). By October, 1912, a shaft had been sunk to depth of 105 feet with working drifts on the 60- and 100-foot levels. On the 60-foot level drifts extended 50 feet to the west and 25 feet to the east. At the 100-foot level, a drift extended 10 feet on each side of the shaft. Bad air in the shaft curtailed operations in 1912 until artificial ventilation could be provided. At that time about 2.5 tons of material was sacked and stockpiled at the mine site awaiting custom milling. A small boiler and steam hoist had been erected over the shaft and work continued through the winter of 1912. In 1915, the workings on the prospect consisted of a 100-foot adit and a 100-foot deep shaft with working levels at 60 and 100 feet (Brooks, 1916; B 642). By 1922, the drifts on the 60-foot level were 50 and 60 feet long (Davis, 1922). Production to 1922 was estimated at 200 tons of ore and subsequent mining of the Nars Anderson prospect was expected to be conducted through the upper adit at the Hi Yu mine. In 1985, Placid Oil Company drilled two diamond drill holes on the Nars Anderson prospect. Placid Oil Company records refer to this prospect as the Dorando prospect and mistakenly refer to the Rob Roy prospect as the Nars Anderson prospect. Holes 1DD-85 and 2DD-85 were drilled to the south at inclinations of 70 and 85 degrees to a total depth of 179 and 185 feet, respectively (Porterfield and Croff, 1986). No significant mineralization was encountered and no additional work has been conducted on this prospect.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c).

Comment (Production): Production Notes = Production to 1922 was estimated at 200 tons of ore; subsequent mining of the Nars Anderson prospect was expected to be conducted through the upper adit at the Hi Yu mine (Davis, 1922).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Smith (1913, B 525) reported a shear zone with quartz-rich intervals from 6 inches to 2 feet wide, although mineralization in the surrounding wall rocks made an ore zone up to 6 feet wide. The hanging wall of the shear is highly faulted and slickensided with post-mineral motion visible. The foot wall contains mixed wall rock and quartz and the contact is not faulted above the 80-foot station in the shaft. Below the 80-foot station both the hanging wall and foot wall appear to be fault contacts (Smith, 1913; B 525). By 1912, the shear zone hosting the gold was traced for over 1,700 feet along its east-west strike and the high grade portion of the shear was 8 to 18 inches wide and dipped 65 N (Times Publishing Company, 1912). In the fall of 1911, a one ton sample of ore from this zone was custom milled and averaged $60 per ton in gold (2.9 ounces of gold per ton). An additional 1.5 tons of material was custom milled in 1911 and 4 tons of material were custom milled in the spring of 1912 (Smith, 1913; B 525). The grade of these two lots is unknown. By 1922, the Hi Yu shear zone (ARDF no. LG182) had been traced to the northwest and identified as the same shear zone as the Nars Anderson (Davis, 1922).

References

Reference (Deposit): Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.

Reference (Deposit): Smith, P.S., 1913, Lode mining near Fairbanks, in Prindle, L.M., A geologic reconnaissance of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 525, p. 153-216.

Reference (Deposit): Freeman, C.J., 1992, 1991 Golden Summit project final report, volume 2: Historical summary of lode mines and prospects in the Golden Summit project area, Alaska: Avalon Development Corp., 159 p. (Report held by Freegold Recovery Inc. USA, Vancouver, British Columbia.)

Reference (Deposit): Porterfield, J. and Croff, C., 1986, Summary report for the Cleary Project, Fairbanks district, Alaska - 1985: Placid Oil Company Report, 36 p.

Reference (Deposit): Times Publishing Company, 1912, Tanana Magazine, Quartz Edition: Fairbanks, Alaska 76 p.

Reference (Deposit): Davis, J.A., 1922, Lode mining in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 58-1, 80 p.

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