The Unnamed (south of Taylor Mountains) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (south of Taylor Mountains) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (south of Taylor Mountains)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Mercury
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
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: Quartz-tourmaline veining is present.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Gangue: Tourmaline
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary, the age of felsic plutons in southwest Alaska that intrude the mid-Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the Kuskokwim Group.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Sulfide-bearing veins in or near felsic hypabyssal intrusive rocks
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = T. K. Bundzten (personal commun., 1992) reports that disseminated arsenopyrite, cinnabar, pyrite, and minor gold are in hypabyssal rhyolite about 1 mile south of the Taylor Creek airstrip. Sparse sulfides are also in quartz-tourmaline veinlets that cut the rhyolite. Cady and others (1955, p. 71, plate 1) noted east-west-trending rhyolite dikes or sills on the ridges just west of lower Forks Creek, about about 2.5 miles east-northeast of this occurrence. The felsic hypabyssal rocks intrude mid-Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the Kuskokwim Group.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cady and others, 1955
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Some surface examination and sampling has occurred but the nature of any additional work is not known.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cady, W.M., Wallace, R.E., Hoare, J.M., and Webber, E.J., 1955, The central Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 268, 132 p.
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