Mine detail: Fishhook

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.79976, -141.31264

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Silver, Stibnite
Gangue: Hematite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Gneiss
Alteration processes:Intense hydrothermal alteration and silicification is found in many of the NE-trending fault zones and in portions of intrusive units at the prospect (Curt Freeman, unpublished data, 1998).

References

MRDSA012533
DEP10001749
Reference{Deposit:: Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1931, A geologic reconnaissance of the Dennison Fork District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 827, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Foster, H.L., 1970, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Tanacross quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geological Investigations Map I-593, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Eberlein, G.D., Chapman, R.M., Foster, H.L., and Gassaway, J.S., 1977, Map and table describing known metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-168-D, 132 p., 1 map, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Gill, R., 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of the southwest quarter of the Tanacross D-1 quadrangle, Alaska: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, M.Sc. thesis, 129 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Eberlein, G.D., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Big Delta and Tanacross quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1086, 77 p.}{Deposit:: Dusel-Bacon, C., and Aleinikoff, J.N., 1985, Petrology and tectonic significance of augen gneiss from a belt of Mississippian granitoids in the Yukon-Tanana terrane, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 411-425.}
ReporterC.E. Cameron