The Scott Reese is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Scott Reese MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Scott Reese
Secondary: Rex
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Fairbanks
Land Status
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Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography
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Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Pilgrim, 1932
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Prior to 1931, the shear zone had produced a small amount of ore that contained an average of $8.50 per ton in gold (0.4 ounces of gold per ton) (Pilgrim, 1932).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The prospect was staked as the Rex claim in 1911 by W.S. Reese who conducted a minor amount of exploration in that year (Times Publishing Company, 1912; Brooks, 1912). Legal problems prevented additional work and in 1912 no work was conducted (Smith, 1913; B 525). By 1931, a 320-foot adit had been driven on the Rex shear zone (Hill, 1933). This adit intersected a 4-inch-thick fault zone 20 feet from the portal and a 3-inch quartz-bearing shear 150 feet from the portal. A 3-foot-thick, northeast-striking shear was intersected 72 feet from the portal and had produced a few tons of ore averaging $8.50 per ton in gold (0.4 ounces of gold per ton) prior to 1931 (Pilgrim, 1932). The adit intersected a fault zone oriented N 60 E, 80 SE, about 230 feet from the portal. At the 258-foot station of the tunnel, drifts had been driven on a N 60 E shear zone. The northeast drift had followed this shear for 45 feet and the southwest drift was extended 100 feet. Free gold was recovered from a 3-inch-thick quartz stringer near the face of the northeast drift; the stringer had an east-west strike and a 45 S dip. Approximately 40 feet from the main adit, the southwest drift intersected a 3-inch-wide, N 75 E, 25 SE. quartz stringer which also contained free gold (Pilgrim, 1932; Stewart, 1933). W.S. Reese still owned the prospect in 1938 when a small amount of work was conducted in the main adit (Reed, 1939).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Gold-quartz veins.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Free gold is found in 3-inch quartz stringers that strike N 60-75 E and dip 25 SE (Pilgrim, 1932; Stewart, 1933). Prior to 1931, the shear zone had produced a small amount of ore that averaged $8.50 per ton in gold (0.4 ounces of gold per ton) (Pilgrim, 1932).
References
Reference (Deposit): Pilkington, H.D., 1970, Keystone Mines Inc. exploration program summary: International Minerals & Chemicals Corporation, 61 p. , 1 plate.
Reference (Deposit): Times Publishing Company, 1912, Tanana Magazine, Quartz Edition: Fairbanks, Alaska 76 p.
Reference (Deposit): Reed, I.M., 1939, Report on lode mining and development in the year 1938 in the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Internal Report 26 p.
Reference (Deposit): Pilgrim, E.R., 1932, Progress of lode mining in interior Alaska, 1931: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 194-4, 9 p.
Reference (Deposit): Stewart, B.D., 1933, Mining investigations and mine inspection in Alaska, Biennium ending March 31, 1933: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Annual Report 1933B, 196 p.
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