Mine detail: Tolovana

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Location: Livengood County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 65.06268, -147.45196
dep_id: 10308904
mrds_id: A015430
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Arsenopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite, Stibnite
alteration: Pods and disseminations of jamesonite occur in an amorphous, green vuggy matrix in the walls surrounding the gouge zone (LeLacheur, 1991). Quartz, sericite, ankerite and carbon alteration also present.
Reporter: C.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer
References:
  • Deposit:: Times Publishing Company, 1912, Tanana Magazine, Quartz Edition: Fairbanks, Alaska 76 p.
  • 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:: Brooks, A.H., 1916, Antimony deposits of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 649, 67 p.
  • Deposit:: Davis, J.A., 1922, Lode mining in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 58-1, 80 p.
  • Deposit:: Stewart, B.D., 1922, Annual report of the Mine Inspector to the Governor of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines, p. 102.
  • Deposit:: Stewart, B.D., 1923, Annual report of the Mine Inspector to the Governor of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines, p. 69.
  • Deposit:: Loftus, T.A., 1927, Gold quartz veins occurring on the north flank of Pedro Dome, Fairbanks District, Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Bachelor of Science thesis , 26 p.
  • 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, p. 1-83.
  • Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1933, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1931: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 844-A, p. 1-81.
  • Deposit:: Stewart, B.D., 1931, Report on cooperation between Territory of Alaska and the United States in making mining investigations: U.S. Bureau of Mines , p. 94.
  • Deposit:: Stewart, B.D., 1933, Mining investigations and mine inspection in Alaska, Biennium ending March 31, 1933: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Annual Report 1933B, 196 p.
  • Deposit:: Pilgrim, E.R., 1933, Progress of lode mining in interior Alaska, 1932: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 194, 11 p.
  • Deposit:: Joesting, H.R., 1942, Strategic mineral occurences in interior Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 1, 46 p.
  • Deposit:: Killeen, P.L., and Mertie, J.B., 1951, Antimony ore in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 51-46, 43 p.
  • Deposit:: Wedow, Helmuth, Jr., and White, M.G., 1954, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in east-central Alaska, 1949: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 335, 22 p.
  • Deposit:: Byers, F.M., Jr., 1957, Tungsten deposits in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1024-I, p. 179-216.
  • Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 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:: 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:: LeLacheur, E.A., 1991, Brittle-fault-hosted gold mineralization in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 154 p.
  • Deposit:: Freeman, C.J., 1992, 1991 Golden Summit project final report, volume 2: Historical summary of lode mines and prospects in the Golden Summit project area, Alaska: Avalon Development Corp., 159 p. (Report held by Freegold Recovery Inc. USA, Vancouver, British Columbia.)
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