The Unnamed (in Daisy Swift Creek) is a gold and zinc mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (in Daisy Swift Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (in Daisy Swift Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Antimony
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: 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: Pyritization.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Pyritized metabasite with Au.
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the source of the high zinc concentrations in stream sediments has not been determined.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = During reconnaissance mapping of the area in 1990 by Kennecott Exploration Company, 2,300 ppm zinc and anomalous amounts of gold were found in a stream sediment sample from Daisy Swift Creek. The gold content of a panned concentrate from Daisy Swift Creek, collected about 2,000 feet above its mouth, was 1,570 ppb gold. Followup of stream sediment and panned concentrate samples led to discovery of a pyritized metabasite unit that contained more than 0.1 ounce of gold per ton and anomalous amounts of antimony. The source of the zinc anomaly was not determined. Daisy Swift Creek flows generally northwest in a schist unit between major bodies of the massive marble unit of Bundtzen and others (1994). The schist is mainly calc-schist, but locally it includes silicic units of probable felsic volcanic origin. The schist also includes large boudin-like masses of metabasite (C.C. Hawley, Cindy Buxton, and D.L. Olson, written communication, 1992).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The area was explored from 1990 to 1992 by Kennecott Exploration Co.; there is no evidence of previous exploration.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
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.
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