Mine detail: Reinisch (Arsenic Hill)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

64.61372, -165.42496

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Scorodite
Gangue:	Albite, Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Schist
Alteration processes:	Albitization; sulfidization (especially introduction of arsenopyrite); and oxidation of arsenopyrite.

References

MRDS	A012833
DEP	10001989
Reference	{Deposit:: Cathcart, S.H., 1922, Metalliferous lodes in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722, p. 163-261.}{Deposit:: Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome C-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-247, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.}
Reporter	Travis L. Hudson, C.C. Hawley