Mine detail: Alaska Hills Corp.

Previously called 'Paystreak & Fairweathers'

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Location

Lat / long:

59.57449, -150.6406

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Valdez Group
Host type:	Siltstone
Alteration processes:	None reported, although Borden and others (1991) report other veins in the Nuka Bay district show carbonization, sulfidization, sericitization, and silicification of the wall rock adjacent to the veins.

References

MRDS	A010579
DEP	10000414
Reference	{Deposit:: Pilgrim, E.R., 1933, Progress of lode mining in interior Alaska, 1932: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 194, 11 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic minerals resources map of the Seldovia quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-397, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than minerals fuels and construction materials) in the Seldovia quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 80-87, 47 p.}{Deposit:: Borden, J.C., Goldfarb, R.J., Gent, C.A., Burruss, R.C., and Roushey, B.H., 1992 Geochemistry of lode-gold deposits, Nuka Bay district, southern Kenai Peninsula: Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2041, p. 13-21.}
Reporter	Jeff A. Huber