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Green Mountain

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002827
MRDS ID A015299
Record type Site
Current site name Green Mountain
Related records 10111874

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.50295, 64.96661 (WGS84)
Relative position The Green Mountain prospect is located in the SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 26, T. 2 N., R. 1 E., Fairbanks Meridian. This deposit is on the west side of Rose Creek, about 1,000 feet west of the mouth of Evening Star Creek. It is about 4.1 miles west-southwest of the top of Gilmore Dome. The prospect is included in locality 30 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-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Big Delta NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fairbanks(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

NOAA(Federal land areas administered by NOAA)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.50295, 64.96661
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A small open cut exposes a 15-foot-wide quartz vein (Chapin, 1914, B 592-J, p. 321-355). An adit driven to crosscut the vein intersected a brecciated mass of schist with small quartz veins; free gold was panned here from crushed rock (Chapin, 1914, B 592-J, p. 321-355). This prospect lies on the western edge of a Cretaceous granite that intrudes two units of the Fairbanks Schist that are composed of (1) quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist, and (2) amphibolite, magnetite-rich biotite schist, quartz schist, and marble (Newberry and others, 1996).

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 = Workings consisted of a small open cut and an adit (Chapin, 1914, B 592-J, p. 321-355).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Chapin, 1914 (B 592-J, p. 321-355)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Schist-hosted gold-quartz vein

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

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