The Unnamed (Silver Creek--lode) is a arsenic, antimony, and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Arsenic, Antimony, Gold
Lat, Long: 64.7613, -165.40490
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Unnamed (Silver Creek--lode) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (Silver Creek--lode)
Commodity
Primary: Arsenic
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Disseminated sulfides (?), silicification (?), ankerite replacement (?).
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Ankerite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = BHP-Utah International, Inc. completed surface mapping and a large soil geochemistry survey in the general area in 1989-90. The soil geochemistry survey defined an area of anomalous gold and arsenic values about 4 miles long. This prospect is in the western part of the anomalous area. Kennecott Exploration Company explored the prospect in 1995 by detailed surface mapping and 1,000 feet of trenches. The trenches are on the west side of Silver Creek and extend from the Snake River road northward almost to the contact between massive marble and underlying metasedimentary schist.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This prospect is located near the west end of a large area of anomalous gold and arsenic values in soils defined by BHP-Utah International, Inc. (Stevens, 1991). Near Silver Creek, gold in soils locally exceeds 100 ppb and arsenic exceeds 800 ppm. Kennecott Exploration explored the area in 1995 by detailed surface mapping and with 1,000 feet of trenches. The trenches are on the west side of Silver Creek and extend from the Snake River road northward almost to the contact between massive marble and underlying metasedimentary schist (Bundzten and others, 1994). The source of the anomalous gold and arsenic in soils was not clearly identified, although a sulfide-bearing, northeast-trending vein zone is located at an elevation of 900 feet in the NW 1/4, section 32 (T. 8 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian). The sources of the anomalous metals could include stratabound quartz-stibnite-gold mineralization in schist near the base of massive marble, as at the nearby Tanner prospect (NM091), or low sulfide, gold-quartz veins, as at the nearby McDuffee mine (NM092). Silver Creek contained a small gold placer (NM094) below this prospect.
Comment (Geology): Age = Mid-Cretaceous; appears to postdate regional metamorphism.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Massive stibnite lenses and disseminated gold-bearing mineralization in calcareous schist below marble and/or low-sulfide, Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).
References
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Stevens, D.L., 1991, Mt. Distin prospect, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Unpublished report for Bering Straits Native Corporation, Nome, Alaska, 22 p.
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