The Farewell Mineral Licks is a copper, manganese, and iron mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Copper, Manganese, Iron
Lat, Long: 62.495, -153.60600
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Farewell Mineral Licks MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Farewell Mineral Licks
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Manganese
Primary: Iron
Secondary: Sodium
Secondary: Potassium
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicrete and ferricrete.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Dolomite
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Bundtzen and others, 1997
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = One soil sample taken at the Farewell Mineral Licks was anomalous in copper (250 ppm), manganese (8,500 ppm), potassium (6.50 percent) and sodium (12.00 percent).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = See White Mountain Mercury Mine (MG025) and the Peggy Barbara (MG026) and Mary Margaret (MG027) prospects.
Comment (Geology): Ore Material = Iron oxides
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary, based on C14 age data summarized by Kline and Bundtzen (1986).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Unknown; possibly hot springs related.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Farewell Mineral Licks are a series of three subcircular areas of dark yellow-brown soils frequently utilized as mineral licks and roll areas by buffalo (Bison bison), moose (Alces alces), and other ungulates. Each 'lick' is approximately 40 meters in diameter, and composed of distinctive yellow-brown residual soils in Quaternary drift directly overlying the active strand of the Denali-Farewell fault, a major transcurrent fault that forms an arc across central Alaska and Yukon (Bundtzen, Harris, and Gilbert, 1997). A distinct silicrete rind covers soil at the site. Dolomite fragments were recognized in one soil sample. . One soil sample taken at the Farewell Mineral licks was anomalous in copper (250 ppm), manganese (8,500 ppm), potassium (6.50 percent), and sodium (12.00 percent). The manganese may be the result of decomposed dolomite. The remaining elements may be the result of a hydrothermal plumbing system within the Denali fault system.
References
Reference (Deposit): Kline, J.T., and Bundtzen, T.K., 1986, Two glacial records from west-central Alaska, in Hamilton, T.D., Reed, K.M., and Thorson, Robert, eds., Glaciation in Alaska: Alaska Geological Society Special Volume, p. 123-150.
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Kline, J.T., and Clough, J.G., 1982, Preliminary geologic map of the McGrath B-2 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File report 149, 22 pages, one sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Kline, J.T., and Pinney, D.S., 1997, Derivative map of geological materials and hazards in the eastern half, McGrath quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 97-14b, one sheet, scale, 1:125,000.
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Harris, E.E., and Gilbert, W.G., 1997, Geologic Map of the eastern McGrath quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 97-14, 34 pages, one sheet, scale 1:125,000.
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