The Wyoming is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Wyoming MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Wyoming
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Arsenic
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hummel, 1962 (MF 248)
Comment (Geology): Age = Mid-Cretaceous or younger; postdates regional metamorphism.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Prospect pits.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Arsenopyrite- and (or) pyrite-bearing vein in metamorphic rocks.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Hummel (1962 [MF 248]) reported arsenopyrite, pyrite, and possibly pyrrhotite at this locality. Dorothy Creek (NM097) is auriferous, and Collier and others (1908) noted numerous quartz veins in schist bedrock of the drainage. The Wyoming prospect is apparently an arsenopyrite- and (or) pyrite-bearing vein. Antimony occurrences (NM068 and NM069) and the Bulk Gold prospects (NM071 and NM072) occur on the ridge along the southwest headwaters of Dorothy Creek . Bladed stibnite crystals were common in placer concentrates recovered from Dorothy Creek (Anderson, 1947).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1975, Mineral deposits and occurrences, and associated altered rocks, in southwest Seward Peninsula, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-2, 1 sheet, scale 1:125,000.
Reference (Deposit): Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.
Reference (Deposit): Anderson, Eskil, 1947, Mineral occurrences other than gold deposits in northwestern Alaska: Alaska Territorial Division of Mines Pamphlet 5-R, 48 p.
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