Unnamed Prospect (ARDF - PM104; north of Simeon Bight), Alaska Peninsula District, Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, USA
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Location: This prospect is at an elevation of 300 feet on western Popof Island approximately 0.3 mile north of the west part of Simeon Bight. The map site is in the northeast corner of sec. 35, T. 56 S., R. 73 W., of the Seward Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The rocks at this site are basaltic tuffs and flows interbedded with ash and crystal-lithic tuffs of the Eocene to Oligocene Popof volcanic rocks (Wilson and others, 1995). Two distinct areas of alteration are present. The westernmost is a north-trending 5,000- by 1,000-foot zone of silicification. Approximately 1,000 feet to the east is a 2,000- by 2,000-foot zone of mixed silicified and argillized rock (Ellis and Apel, 1989). Pyrite is the only sulfide reported. Grid sampling of soil and rocks revealed only scattered, low-order gold anomalies; however, widespread arsenic and mercury anomalies were outlined. The prospect was explored by 5 drill holes. Three were drilled on a gold-arsenic anomaly just southwest of a 4,000-gamma magnetic low. This drilling penetrated rock carrying scattered gold values of 20 to 200 ppb and localized base metal values of 100 to 2,500 ppm copper, 100 to 800 ppm lead, and 200 to 700 ppm zinc (Ellis and Apel, 1989). All five drill holes cut strong to pervasive silicification, argillization, pyritization, and localized solfataric alteration marked by native sulfur.
Workings: In 1989 Battle Mountain Exploration Company mapped this prospect, collected 250 rock and 500 soil samples, conducted VLF-EM surveys, power-augered 97 holes, and drilled five core holes for a total of 2,795 feet (Ellis and Apel, 1989; 1990). Fifty-five rock samples were taken in 1990. Only scattered low-level gold values were found.
Age: Eocene or younger.
Alteration: The volcanic rocks exhibit silicic, argillic and solfataric alteration.
Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - As, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Mineral List
2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.
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References
Ellis, W.T., and Apel, R.A., 1989, Unga/Alaska Peninsula 1989 final report: Battle Mountain Exploration Company report, 41 p., 28 map sheets at various scales. (Report held by the Aleut Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.) Ellis, W.T., and Apel, R.A., 1990, Unga/Alaska Peninsula 1990 final report: Battle Mountain Exploration Company report, 49 p., 29 map sheets at various scales. (Report held by the Aleut Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.) Wilson, F.H., Detterman, R.L., Miller, J. W., and Case, J.E., 1995, Geologic map of the Port Moller, Stepovak Bay, and Simeonof Island quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-2272, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
