Mine detail: Whalen Shaft

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.21642, -154.7699

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold, Copper
Ore: Allanite, Gold, Malachite, Scheelite, Silver
Gangue: Kyanite, Pyroxene, Tremolite, Zircon

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone

References

MRDSD002709
DEP10090726
Reference{Deposit:: Martin, G.C., 1922, Gold lodes in the Upper Kuskokwim region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864D, p. 149-161.}{Deposit:: Brown, J.S., 1926, The Nixon Fork country: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783. p. 97-144.}{Deposit:: Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1936, Mineral deposits of the Ruby-Kuskokwim region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864-C, 115-245.}{Deposit:: White, M.G., and Stevens, J.M., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in the Ruby-Poorman and Nixon Fork districts, west-central Alaska, in 1949: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 279, 19 pages.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1974, Synopsis of mineral resources and geology of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1307, 53 pages.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., and Miller, M.L., 1997, Precious metals associated with Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary igneous rocks of southwestern Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Economic Geology Monograph #9, Mineral Deposits of Alaska, p. 242-286.}
ReporterBundtzen, T.K.