The Gold King is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Gold King MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold King
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chandalar
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: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Devonian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Middle Cretaceous based on arguments by Dillon (1982) that the age of emplacement of the gold-bearing quartz veins of the Koyukuk and Chandalar districts was between the Neocomian metamorphism of the Devonian host rocks and their erosional unroofing and cooling in Albian time.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = A three-stamp mill was reportedly built in 1910 (Heiner and Wolff, 1968).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Heiner and Wolff, 1968
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Little information is available on this property except the description in Heiner and Wolff (1968) that it is a gold quartz property.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins(?) (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Heiner, L.E., and Wolff, E.N., eds., 1968, Mineral resources of northern Alaska, Final report, submitted to the NORTH Commission: Mineral Industry Research Laboratory, University of Alaska, Report 16, 306 p.
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