The Red Devil mine is a mercury mine located in Alaska.
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Red Devil mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Devil mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Arsenic
Location
State: Alaska
District: Aniak
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Almaden Hg
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Text: Diabasic dikes altered to quartz, chalcedony, carbonate, and sericite.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Orpiment
Ore: Realgar
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Clay
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Miller and others, 1989, p. 46-51, 96
Comment (Commodity): Gangue = carbonate
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = About 9,600 feet (3,000 m) of underground workings on five main levels.
Comment (Geology): Age = Miocene/Pliocene
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Epithermal vein; mercury-antimony
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = 'Host rocks are interbedded graywacke and shale of the Kuskokwim Group cut by a few dikes that are generally altered to quartz, chalcedony, carbonate, and sericite (Malone, 1962). Most of the ore formed along and near intersections between altered dikes and NW-trending faults that mainly parallel bedding planes. Formation of ore was primarily by open space filling and consists of cinnabar associated with abundant stibnite in a quartz-rich gangue; less common realgar, orpiment, and antimony minerals are also found (MacKevett and Berg, 1963). Stibnite-cinnabar ratio increases with depth (Malone, 1962). Ore shoots did not continue below 460-480 ft (Donald Grybeck, USGS, personal commun., 1988). MacKevett and Berg (1963) reported that clay minerals (dickite among them) occupy central parts of some ore-bearing veinlets, but are more conspicuous in barren veinlets away from ore bodies. Jasper (1961) stated that while no native mercury was found at the property, old timers reported appreciable amounts in material panned along McCally Creek, west of the property.' (Miller and others, 1989).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = Known ore bodies exhausted
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Total of 36,141 1 408 flasks Hg from 1933-71 (Miller and others, 1989).
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = On SW limb of NW-trending Sleetmute anticline.
References
Reference (Deposit): Meyer, M.P., 1985, Mineral investigation of the Iditarod-George planning block, central Kuskokwim River area, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 9-85, 232 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountains quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.
Reference (Deposit): Malone, Kevin, 1962, Mercury occurrences in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Circular 8131, 57 p.
Reference (Deposit): Rytuba, J.J., 1986, Descriptive model of Almaden Hg, in Cox, D.P., and Singer, D.A., eds. Mineral Deposit Models: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693, p. 180.
Reference (Deposit): Miller, M.L., Belkin, H.E., Blodgett, R.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Cady, J.W., Goldfarb, R.J., Gray, J.E., McGimsey, R.G., and Simpson, S.L., 1989, Pre-field study and mineral resource assessment of the Sleetmute quadrangle, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-363, 115 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Jasper, Martin, 1961, Cinnabar province, Kuskokwim region, in Williams, J.A., Report of the Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Report for the Year 1961: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Annual Report, p. 65-79.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Sleetmute quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-368, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L. and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1965, Quicksilver deposits of southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1187, 89 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Berg, H.C., 1963, Geology of the Red Devil quicksilver mine, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1142-G, p. G1-G16.
Reference (Deposit): Jasper, M.W., 1961, Cinnabar province, Kuskokwim region: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals, Report for the Year 1961, p. 65-79.
Reference (Deposit): Webber, B.S., Bjorklund, S.C., Rutledge, F.A., Thomas, B.I., and Wright, W.S., 1947, Mercury deposits of southwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4065, 57 p.
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