Mine detail: Elmes

Previously called 'EthelNickaloff'

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Location

Lat / long: 64.88577, -147.97295

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Mica Schist
Alteration processes:All of the lode material was highly oxidized (Wimmler, 1926 [ATDM PE 58-2]).

References

MRDSA015284
DEP10097551
Reference{Deposit:: Wimmler, N.L., 1926, Elmes Gold Mining Company (Happy Creek): Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Prospect Evaluation 58-2, 5 p.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1929, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1926: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 797, p. 1-50.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1930, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1927: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 810-A, p. 1-64.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1930, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1928: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 813, p. 1-72.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1932, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1929, in Smith, P.S., and others Mineral resources of Alaska, report on progress of investigations in 1929: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 824-A, p. 1-81.}{Deposit:: Hill, J.M., 1933, Lode deposits of the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849-B, p. 29-163.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1930: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 836-A, p. 1-83.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1934, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1933: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864-A, p. 1-94.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1938, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-A, p. 1-107.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S. 1939, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1937: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 910-A, p. 1-113.}{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.}{Deposit:: Green, C.B., Bundtzen, T.K., Peterson, R.J., Seward, A.F., Deagan, J.R., and Burton, J.E., 1989, Alask* Mineral Industry, 1988, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 43, 79 p.}{Deposit:: Swainbank, R.C., Bundtzen, T.K., and Wood, J.E., 1991, Alask* Mineral Industry 1990: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 45, 78 p.}
ReporterC.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer