The Sparrevohn is a mercury and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Sparrevohn MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sparrevohn
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: McGrath
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: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Pan concentrates from several drainages in this area contain detrital gold, and one contains gold and cinnabar (Eppinger, 1993). Most of the gold is well-rounded and flat, except for that in the one sample that contains cinnabar. Bedrock in the area is dominantly Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks (Eppinger, 1993).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986, model 39a)
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Eppinger, 1993
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Eppinger, R.G., 1993, Gold and cinnabar in heavy-mineral concentrates from stream-sediment samples collected from the western half of the Lime Hills 1 degree x 3 degree quadrangle, Alaska, in Dusel-Bacon, C. and Till, A. B., eds., Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2068, p. 91-100.
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