Mine detail: Nixon Fork - Crystal

Previously called 'Garnet Extension'

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Location

Lat / long: 63.23837, -154.77684

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Scheelite, Gold, Pyrite
Gangue: Epidote, Magnetite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Quartz Latite
Alteration processes:Extensive oxidation of primary sulfides.

References

MRDSA010652
DEP10000473
Reference{Deposit:: Martin, G.C., 1922, Gold lodes in the Upper Kuskokwim region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864D, p. 149-161.}{Deposit:: Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1936, Mineral deposits of the Ruby-Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864-C, 115-245.}{Deposit:: Freeman, Larry, 1996, A progress report on the Nixon Fork underground gold mine, McGrath-McKinley district, Alaska [abs]: Abstract preprint of the 15th Biennial Conference on Alaskan Mining, Alaska Miners Association, Fairbanks, Alaska, p. 36.}
ReporterBundtzen, T.K.