Mine detail: Silver Fox

Previously called 'Busty BelleSilvertone'

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Location: Livengood County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.00817, -147.56895
dep_id: 10308898
mrds_id: A015414
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Jamesonite, Molybdenite, Powellite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Reporter: C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer
References:
  • Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.
  • Deposit:: Forbes, R.B., Pilkington, H.D., and Hawkins, D.B., 1968, Gold gradients and anomalies in the Pedro Dome-Cleary Summit area, Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 324, 43 p.
  • 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 Livengood quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 413, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Mowatt, T.C., 1974, Petrologic studies in the Fairbanks District: Molybdenum mineralization at the Silver Fox Mine: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 46, 34 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Mineral resources of Alaska, in Yount, M.E., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Program, 1975: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 722, 37 p.
  • Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-633, 72 p.
  • Deposit:: Sherman, G. E., 1983, Geology and mineralization of the Silver Fox mine, Fairbanks district, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 84 p.
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