Mine detail: Tok Antimony

Previously called 'StibniteA Lucky LeakGamblinCaulk'

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Location

Lat / long: 63.2497, -143.80266

Resource(M)

Primary: Antimony
Ore: Pyrite, Stibnite
Gangue: Calcite, Muscovite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Schist
Associated type:Andesite
Alteration processes:Andesite Porphyry Is Intensely Altered To Quartz-Dolomite-Sericite

References

MRDSA012543
DEP10001756
Reference{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.}{Deposit:: Joesting, H.R., 1942, Strategic mineral occurences in interior Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 1, 46 p.}{Deposit:: Joesting, H.R., 1942, Antimony and tungsten deposits in Fairbanks and adjacent areas: Alaska Department of Mines MR 194-11, 25 p.}{Deposit:: Moffit, F.H., 1944, Mining in the northern Copper River region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 943, p. 25-47.}{Deposit:: Ebbley, N., and Wright, W.S., 1948, Antimony deposits in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4173, 41 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Kachadoorian, R., 1961, Index of metallic and non- metallic mineral deposits of Alaska compiled from published reports of federal and state agencies through 1957: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1139, 336 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 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:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Tanacross quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-383, 1 sheet, scale 1: 250,000.}{Deposit:: Foster, H.L., Albert, N.R.D., Barnes, D.F., Curtin, G.C., Griscom, Andrew, Singer, D.A., and Smith, J.G., 1976, The Alaskan Mineral Resources Assessment Program: Background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Tanacross quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 734, 23 p.}{Deposit:: Singer, D.A., Csejtey, Bela, Jr., and Miller, R.J., 1978, Map and discussion of the metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral resources of the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 78-588-Q, 33 p., 1 plate, scale 1:250,000.}{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:: York, T.M., 1980, Geology of the Tok antimony mine, Tok, Alaska: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, M.Sc. thesis, 94 p.}
ReporterC.E. Cameron