Gold Lake

The Gold Lake is a mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Gold Lake

Commodity

Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Tungsten

Location

State: Alaska

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: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Galena
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Frost and others, 1990

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Reconnaissance surface sampling and observation is all that has been reported for this locality.

Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous or Early Tertiary ; postdates Jurassic host rocks and is probably related to the Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary suite of intermediate to felsic intrusive rocks in the region (Box and others, 1993).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Oxidized pyrite-bearing rhyolite dikes and sulfide-bearing quartz veins cut Jurassic volcaniclastic rocks at this locality (Box and others, 1993). Anomalous values of Ag, As, Au, Cu, Hg, Mo, Pb, Sb, and W are found in quartz veins, altered dikes, and hydrothermal breccia (Frost, 1990; Frost and others, 1993). The maximum gold value is 2 ppm and the maximum silver value is 7 ppm. The dikes are variably replaced by sericite, illite, and quartz. Galena is the only sulfide mineral identified in the quartz veins.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Box, S.E, Moll-Stalcup, E.J., Frost, T.P., and Murphy, J.M., 1993, Preliminary geologic map of the Bethel and southern Russian Mission quadrangles, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2226-A, 20 p., scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Frost, T.P., 1990, Geology and geochemistry of mineralization in the Bethel quadrangle, southwestern Alaska, in Goldfarb, R. J., Nash, J. T., and Stoeser, J. W., eds., Geochemical studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1950, p. C1-C9.

Reference (Deposit): Frost, T.P., Bradley, L., O'Leary, R.M., and Motooka, J., 1992, Geochemical results and sample locality map for rock samples from the Bethel and southern part of the Russian Mission 1:250,000 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-316, 229 p.

Reference (Deposit): Frost, T.P., Box, S.E., and Moll-Stalcup, E.J. 1993, Mineral resource assessment of the Bethel and southeastern part of the Russian Mission quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2041, p. 30-48.

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