The Unnamed (near Magnolia Creek) is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (near Magnolia Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (near Magnolia Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Gold
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: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Not known
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Not known
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hudson and Wyman, 1983
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Not defined
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Reconnaissance stream silt and soil sampling is all that has been done here.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Magnolia Creek prospect is an area of anomalous gold values in stream sediments and soils. Magnolia Creek marks the approximate boundary between a highly deformed metapelitic schist to the east and a metapelitic/metacarbonate assemblage to the west. Stream silts in the small east tributary to Magnolia Creek contained highly anomalous gold (295 and 1,830 ppb; Hudson and Wyman, 1983). Follow-up soil sampling on the tundra-mantled slopes in the headwaters of this tributary defined a large area of anomalous gold (5 to 125 ppb), some arsenic ( to 62 ppm), and some mercury (to 600 ppb). The area of anomalous soils is about 1.4 miles long in a north-south direction and about 0.5 miles wide in an east -west direction; the upslope limits of the anomalous area have not been determined (Hudson and Wyman, 1983). The nature of the mineralization in the metapelitic schist responsible for the anomalous soils and steam silts has not been determined.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Disseminated or vein gold in metapelitic schist. Possibly low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986, model 36a)
References
Reference (Deposit): Hudson, T.L., and Wyman, W. F., 1983, Interim report on areas of Seward Peninsula warranting further prospecting and evaluation: Anchorage, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report, 84 p., 7 plates. (Report held by Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.)
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.
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.
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