Mine detail: Lynx Claim

Previously called 'Glacier Creek'

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Location

Lat / long: 64.59789, -165.4091

Resource(M)

Primary: Tungsten, Gold
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite
Gangue: Albite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Gravel
Alteration processes:Albitization; introduction of pyrite and arsenopyrite in schist.

References

MRDSA012902
DEP10002052
Reference{Deposit:: Collier, A. J., Hess, F.L., Smith, P.S., and Brooks, A.H., 1908, The gold placers of parts of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, including the Nome, Council, Kougarok, Port Clarence, and Goodhope precincts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 328, 343 p.}{Deposit:: Cathcart, S.H., 1922, Metalliferous lodes in southern Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 722, p. 163-261.}{Deposit:: Anderson, Eskil, 1947, Mineral occurrences other than gold deposits in northwestern Alaska: Alaska Territorial Division of Mines Pamphlet 5-R, 48 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.}{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.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson, C.C. Hawley