The Rising Sun is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Rising Sun MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rising Sun
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Alaska
District: Alaska Peninsula
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
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Orebody
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Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Wilson and others, 1988
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Work on this prospect includes a 580-foot adit tunnel and a 37-foot drift. The best values from five samples are 0.3 ppm gold and 69 ppm silver.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This prospect is described as two zones of reticulated quartz veins exposed in a 37-foot drift (Wilson and others, 1988). The zones decrease in width from 14 feet at the adit to 1 foot at the end of the drift, where they are faulted off. The veins contain no visible sulfides. They are hosted in the late Eocene to early Oligocene Popof volcanic rocks (Wilson and others, 1995). Five samples assayed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines contained as much as 0.3 ppm gold and 69 ppm silver (Wilson and others, 1988).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Epithermal gold veins
Comment (Geology): Age = Eocene or younger.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Webber, B.S., Moss, J.M., Rutledge, F.A., and Sanford, R.S., 1946, Reconnaissance examinations of parts of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands southwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines, unpublished report of investigations, 40 p. (Unpublished report held by the U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage.)
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, F.H., White, W.H., and DuBois, G.D., 1988, Brief descriptions of mines, prospects, and mineral occurrences in the Port Moller and Stepovak Bay quadrangles, Alaska Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-666, 128 p., scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Wilson, F.H., Detterman, R.L., Miller, J. W., and Case, J.E., 1995, Geologic map of the Port Moller, Stepovak Bay, and Simeonof Island quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-2272, 1 map sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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