The Ellie's Gold is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Ellie's Gold MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ellie's Gold
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
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
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: None.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Gold placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Ellie's Gold occurrence is a concentration of placer gold in a second order stream in the Eocene, Terra Cotta Volcanic field. Abundant black sands - including magnetite - were identified in the panned concentrate collected in the field. Bedrock is shallow and the stream more or less flows on bedrock. Stream gradient is about 200 meters/kilometer; i.e., it is steep. The gold appears as several flat, subangular, pin-sized grains in a black-sand-rich concentrate. The pan concentrate also contained 360 ppm chromium, 220 ppm zinc, and 19.4 percent iron (Bundtzen, Harris, and Gilbert, 1997).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Bundtzen and others, 1997
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The placer gold occurrence was found by Ellen E. Harris in 1988, during regional geochemical and geological investigations in the McGrath A-1 quadrangle by the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (Bundtzen, Harris, and Gilbert, 1997).
References
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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