Mine detail: Cosna Dome

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Location

Lat / long: 64.50857, -152.00002

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Lead, Tin
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Cassiterite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Gangue: Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite, Tourmaline

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:Burleigh (1989 [OFR 11-89]) reported sericite flakes in the vein material and wall rock, indicating hydrothermal alteration.

References

DEP10307705
Reference{Deposit:: Chapman, R.M., Yeend, W., and Patton, W.W., Jr., 1975, Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the western half of the Kantishna River quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-351, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1977, Placer deposit map of central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-168B, 64 p., 1 map, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Silberman, M.L., Moll, E.J., Chapman, R.M., Patton, W.W., Jr., and Connor, C.L., 1979, Potassium-argon age of granitic and volcanic rocks from Ruby, Medfra, and adjacent quadrangles, west-central Alaska, in Johnson, K.M., and Williams, J.R., eds., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishments during 1978: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 804-B, 58 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Chapman, R.M., 1981, Mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Kantishna River and Ruby quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-170, 94 p.}{Deposit:: Burleigh, Roger, 1989, Tin and lead-silver mineralization in the Cosna River region: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 11-89, 19 p., 1 sheet.}{Deposit:: Patton, W.W., Jr., Box, S.E., Moll-Stalcup, E.J., and Miller, T.P., 1989, Geology of west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-554, 50 p.}{Deposit:: Clautice, K.H., Bowman, N.D., Clough, J.G., Gilbert, W.G., Kline, J.T., Smith, T.E., and Blodgett, R.B., 1993, Land selection Unit 8 (Kantishna River, Ruby, and Medfra quadrangles): References, lead isotope, geochemical and major oxide data: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 42 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterCameron S. Rombach