Mine detail: Farmer

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Location

Lat / long: 64.87577, -148.05406

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Pyrite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Schist
Alteration processes:Below the hanging wall, there is 4 inches of iron-stained quartz, followed by 14 inches of crushed, bluish schist, followed by 2 feet of iron-stained fault breccia made up of fragments of schist and quartz (Hill, 1933, p. 122-123).

References

MRDSA015306
DEP10002832
Reference{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1913, Lode mining near Fairbanks, in Prindle, L.M., A geologic reconnaissance of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 525, p. 153-216.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1913, Lode mining near Fairbanks: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 542-F, p. 137-202.}{Deposit:: Chapin, Theodore, 1914, Lode mining near Fairbanks, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 592-J, p. 321-355.}{Deposit:: Hill, J.M., 1933, Lode deposits of the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849-B, p. 29-163.}{Deposit:: Chapman, R.M., and Foster, R.L., 1969, Lode mines and prospects in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D, 25 p., 1 plate.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.}
ReporterC.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer