Sparrevohn

The Sparrevohn is a mercury and gold mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Sparrevohn

Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Primary: Gold

Location

State: Alaska
District: McGrath

Land Status

Not available

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

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

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
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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