Social Security

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002788
MRDS ID A015254
Record type Site
Current site name Social Security
Alternate or previous names Norris
Related records 10281897

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -148.08795, 64.8416 (WGS84)
Relative position The Social Security prospect is located in the S1/2NE1/4 sec. 11, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., Fairbanks Meridian. This prospect is near the summit of a small hill just north of the Chena Station Road, off the Old Nenana Highway. It is about 2.2 miles west-southwest of the town of Ester. This prospect is locality 6 of Cobb (1972 [MF 410]).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Fairbanks North Star(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairbanks D-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Fairbanks N(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fairbanks C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -148.08795, 64.8416

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The Social Security prospect is in the Muskox sequence near a contact between biotite schist and amphibolite (Newberry and others, 1996). Chapman and Foster (1969, p. D19) reported gold in a lode prospect.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Fairbanks

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = No data on workings.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Chapman and Foster, 1969

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Au-quartz vein(?)
Deposit Other Comments = Also known as Norris (Cobb, 1976 [OFR 76-662, p. 166]).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-JUL-2001 J.R. Guidetti Schaefer Avalon Development Corporation
Reporter 31-JUL-2001 C.J. Freeman Avalon Development Corporation

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Alaska resources

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