West Fork

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Antimony

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Alteration
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10307444
Record type	Site
Current site name	West Fork

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-147.77796, 64.99567 (WGS84)
Relative position	The West Fork prospect is a soil anomaly approximately 2,500 feet by 1,500 feet in area. It is centered about 0.3 mile north of Old Murphy Dome Road in the southwest headwater tributary of Eagle Creek; it is in sec. 16, T. 2 N., R. 1 W., Fairbanks Meridian.

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)

Geographic areas

Country	State
United States	Alaska

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Antimony Critical	Primary

Alteration

(Local) Schist fragments are weakly argillized, bleached, and veined with quartz (Dashevsky, 1993).

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-147.77796, 64.99567	ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

Geologic Description = The following geologic description is summarized from a report by Sam Dashevsky (1993) on work done by American Copper and Nickel Company on the Eagle Creek property in the early 1990's. Five lines of soil samples spaced 600 feet apart define a 2,500-foot by 1,500-foot area of anomalous antimony; within it there is a 1,000-foot by 1,400-foot zone of weakly elevated silver. Rock fragments in soil are quartz-mica schist that is argillized, bleached, and veined with quartz. (This area was mapped by Newberry and others (1996) as Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chlorite-quartz schist).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Prospect

Comments on exploration

Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name	Fairbanks

Comments on the workings information

Workings / Exploration = In 1992, American Copper and Nickel Company conducted a soil survey that identified an area with anomalous antimony in the soil (Dashevsky, 1993).

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Alaska Resource Data File	ARDF	FB076

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Dashevsky, S.S., 1993, Eagle Creek project (Au), Fairbanks district, Alaska: American Copper and Nickel Company, Inc., 60 p. (Report held by Sam Dashevsky, Northern Associates Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; can be examined with permission from current lease holders).
Deposit

Newberry, R.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Clautice, K.C., Combellick, R.A., Douglas, T., Laird, G.M., Liss, S.A., Pinney, D.S., Reifenstuhl, R.R., and Solie, D.N., 1996, Preliminary geologic map of the Fairbanks mining district, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 96-16, 17 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.

Comments on the references

Primary Reference = Dashevsky, 1993

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	31-JUL-01	J.R. Guidetti Schaefer and C.J. Freeman	Avalon Development Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

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