Mine detail: Whalen

Previously called 'Whalen and Griffin'

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Location

Lat / long: 63.22448, -154.76405

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver, Copper
Ore: Bismuth, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite
Gangue: Limonite, Malachite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite
Alteration processes:Oxidation.

References

MRDSA012421
DEP10001649
Reference{Deposit:: Martin, G.C., 1922, Gold lodes in the Upper Kuskokwim region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864D, p. 149-161.}{Deposit:: Brown, J.S., 1926, The Nixon Fork country: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783. p. 97-144.}{Deposit:: Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1936, Mineral deposits of the Ruby-Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864-C, 115-245.}{Deposit:: Herreid, G.H., 1966, Geology and geochemistry of the Nixon Fork area, Medfra quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geologic Report 22, 34 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:40,000.}
ReporterBundtzen, T.K.