The Vita is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Vita MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Vita
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Innoko
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
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = the age of mineralization is inferred to be Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary, based on K-Ar and Ar/Ar dating of other granitic bodies in the southern portion of the Ophir quadrangle (Bundtzen and Miller, 1997).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A rock sample collected in 1989 contained 250 ppb gold (Central Alaska Gold Company, unpublished company report, 1990, held by Doyon, Ltd.). Sixteen soil samples collected in 1990 assayed between 120 to 1070 ppb gold.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = This report
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Plutonic-related Au
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = For more information, contact Doyon, Ltd. in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The bedrock in the vicinity of the Vita occurrence consists of a thin feldspathic dike that intrudes Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. A rock sample collected in 1989 contained 250 ppb gold (Central Alaska Gold Company, unpublished company report, 1990, held by Doyon, Ltd.). Sixteen soil samples collected in 1990 assayed between 120 to 1070 ppb gold. The gold values appear to be confined to the margins of the thin dike.
References
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., and Miller, M.L., 1997, Precious metals associated with Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary igneous rocks of southwestern Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Economic Geology Monograph #9, Mineral Deposits of Alaska, p. 242-286.
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