The Golden Bell is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Golden Bell MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Golden Bell
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Valdez Creek
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: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Balen, 1990 (OFR 34-90)
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The placer was discovered in 1973, but there has been little more than surface exploration since then.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Golden Bell placer gold prospect is on upper Partin Creek. The creek drains Upper Triassic limestone and basalt, Upper Devonian sheared serpentinite, basalt, and chert, and Lower Jurassic and Uper Triassic redbed sandstones (Wilson and others, 1998). These strata are cut by several generations of veins probably related to Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary plutons in the area. It is probable that the placer gold was derived from the erosion of the veins, but the hostrocks of the veins can not be discounted as a gold source.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39a)
Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, F.H., Dover, J.H., Bradley, D.C., Weber, F.R., Bundtzen, T.K., and Haeussler, P.J., 1998, Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-133, 17 p., 2 sheetsm, scale 1:500,000.
Reference (Deposit): Balen, M.D., 1990, Geochemical sampling results from the Bureau of Mines Investigations in the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 34-90, 218 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.
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