The Unnamed (on Lost River) is a tin mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (on Lost River) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (on Lost River)
Commodity
Primary: Tin
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence
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
Model Name: Alluvial placer Sn
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Cassiterite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Bedrock in this drainage and its tributaries are various Ordovician limestone facies locally intruded by felsic and mafic dikes and granite stocks (Sainsbury, 1969). The USBM completed two churn-drill holes in the active drainage of Lost River here (Mulligan, 1959, p.12-15). This locality is just west of the outcropping Idaho lode prospect and downstream of the fluorite-beryllium-sulfide mineralization along the Rapid River fault at the Bessie-Maple (TE038) and Lost River valley lode (TE041) prospects. The two churn-drill holes showed the 5 to 6 feet of gravel on bedrock here to contain 0.29 and 0.35 pounds of tin per cubic yard. The gravels at this locality are 9 and 10 feet thick Bedrock described from the bottom of one of these holes is dolomite with chlorite, fluorite, and a trace of pyrite. The gravel in the holes also contained a trace of silver and one contained 0.04 pounds of lead per cubic yard. Galena was identified in the lead-bearing material but otherwise the mineralogy of the heavy mineral concentrates was not reported. Traces of lead and zinc were found in the bedrock but the the related minerals could not be identified (Mulligan, 1959, p. 15).
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined; low grades are indicated
Comment (Production): Production Notes = None
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520).
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Two USBM churn-drill holes have been completed here (Mulligan, 1959).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)
References
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., 1969, Geology and ore deposits of the central York Mountains, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1287, 101 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.
Reference (Deposit): Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Sampling stream gravels for tin, near York, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5520, 25 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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