Mine detail: Cinnabar Creek lode

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 60.79934, -158.8539

Resource(M)

Primary: Antimony, Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar, Gold, Mercury, Pyrite, Stibnite
Gangue: Dickite, Dolomite, Limonite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Siltstone
Alteration processes:Silicification, argillization, oxidation and iron-staining.

References

MRDSA013450
DEP10002511
Reference{Deposit:: Rutledge, F.A., 1950, Investigation of mercury deposits, Cinnabar Creek area, Georgetown and Akiak districts, Kuskokwim region, southwestern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 4719, 9 p.}{Deposit:: Cady, W.M., Wallace, R.E., Hoare, J.M., and Webber, E.J., 1955, The central Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 268, 132 p.}{Deposit:: Sainsbury, C.L. and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1965, Quicksilver deposits of southwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1187, 89 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Taylor Mountains quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-384, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Dillingham, Sleetmute, and Taylor Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-606, 92 p.}{Deposit:: Clark, A.L., Condon, W.H., Hoare, J.M., and Sorg, D.H., 1970, Analyses of rock and stream sediment samples from the Taylor Mountains C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 438, 89 p.}
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