The Penny River is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Penny River MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Penny River
Commodity
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: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Heiner and Porter, 1972
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Mining claims were staked in 1913 by Pioneer Mining Company and later assigned to the F.E. Company. The claims were active from 1913 until 1978 (Heiner and Porter, 1972; Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982). There is no record of significant mining.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Penny River parallels or follows the Penny River fault over most of its length (Bundtzen and others, 1994), and several mineralized areas are present along or near this fault. Although patented mining claims exist along this part of Penny River, there is no evidence of significant mining. It is assumed that gold on Penny River is fine grained and only locally concentrated in point bar and other river deposits. Early claims were staked on the Penny River by the Pioneer Mining Company and later transferred to the F.E. Company (Heiner and Porter, 1972). A map of Hammon Consolidated Goldfields of about 1925 also shows mining claim activity along Penny River.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
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): Heiner, L.E., and Porter, Eve, 1972, Alaska Mineral Properties, volume 2: University of Alaska, Mineral Industry Research Laboratory Report 24, 669 p.
Reference (Deposit): Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 1982, Mining claim location maps -- Nome quadrangle: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 8 p., 3 sheets, scales 1:63,360 and 1:250,000.
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