Peak 5309 No. 3 Occurrence, Hope Mining District, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USAi

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Peak 5309 No. 3 Occurrence	Occurrence
Hope Mining District	Mining District
Kenai Peninsula Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This occurrence was discovered by the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
Location: This occurrence is located on the west-northwest flank of peak 5309 north of the lower ice field at an elevation of approximately 4,100 feet. It is in the SE1/4 section 15, T. 3 N., R. 2 W., of the Seward Meridian. This is location S-218 of Jansons and others (1984). This location is accurate to within 1,000 feet.
Geology: The occurrence consists of several parallel, vuggy, hematite-stained quartz-calcite veins containing small euhedral quartz crystals and numerous rock fragments. The veins are generally parallel to well-bedded siltstone that strikes N55E and dip 55SE. Nelson and others (1985) have mapped this area as undivided sedimentary rock of the Valdez Group of Late Cretaceous age. A single sample of three veins contained no detectable gold, 0.1 ppm silver, 27 ppm copper, 11 ppm lead, and 44 ppm zinc (Hoekzema and Sherman, 1983).
Workings: No workings or improvements are reported in the literature. A single sample of three veins contained no detectable gold, 0.1 ppm silver, 27 ppm copper, 11 ppm lead, and 44 ppm zinc (Hoekzema and Sherman, 1983).
Age: Cretaceous or younger; the veins cut rocks of the Valdez Group of Late Cretaceous age.
Alteration: Veins are hematite-stained.

Commodities (Major) - Ag; (Minor) - Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	SR185

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