Mine detail: Tolovana

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.06268, -147.45197

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite, Stibnite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Alteration processes: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.

References

MRDSA015430
DEP10308904
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ReporterC.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer