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Peterson and Lamoreaux (Banner Peak)

Prospects, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities Pb; Sb
Other commodities Au
Ore minerals galena; stibnite
Gangue minerals quartz

Geographic location

Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale NM
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale C-1
Latitude 64.5735
Longitude -165.4208
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Location and accuracy These are two Peterson and Lamoreaux prospects, one at 650 feet elevation and one at 550 feet elevation, on Banner Peak. This is about the same as locality 13 of Hummel (1962 [MF 247]) and locality 50 of Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]). The map location is in the SW1/4 section 35, T. 10 S., R. 34 W., Kateel River Meridian.

Geologic setting

Geologic description

Banner Peak is underlain mainly by graphitic quartz schist (quartzite) faulted to the north against chlorite-rich metaturbidite schist and marble (Bundtzen and others, 1994). The Peterson and Lamoreaux quartz prospect is at an elevation of 650 feet in graphitic schist and within about 200 feet of the fault. Mertie (1918, p. 432) reported that the quartz body had a strike of N 45 E and a dip of 45 N, and was at least 8 feet thick, and irregularly bounded. The quartz is nearly white and not banded and contains sparsely disseminated galena. The Peterson and Lamoreaux antimony prospect is at an elevation of 550 feet, but its location is uncertain. It is in schist and reportedly produced 1,500 pounds of stibnite ore (Mertie, 1918, p. 439).
Geologic map unit (-165.423399258616, 64.5727334847231)
Mineral deposit model Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein (Cox and Singer, 1986, model 36a); simple Sb deposits? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 27d).
Mineral deposit model number 36a, 27d?
Age of mineralization Probably mid-Cretaceous; Mertie (1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]) thought the vein quartz could be old and possibly related to metamorphism; see NM207.

Production and reserves

Workings or exploration Open cuts and shallow shafts were developed before 1916.
Indication of production Undetermined
Production notes About 1,500 pounds of antimony ore reportedly were produced from the Peterson and Lamoreaux antimony deposit (Mertie, 1918 [B 662-I, p. 425-449]).

References

MRDS Number A012849

References

Bundtzen, T.K., Reger, R.D., Laird, G.M., Pinney, D.S., Clautice, K.H., Liss, S.A., and Cruse, G.R., 1994, Progress report on the geology and mineral resources of the Nome mining district: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data-File 94-39, 21 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome C-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-247, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1918, Lode mining and prospecting on Seward Peninsula, in Brooks, A.H., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, report on progress of investigations in 1916: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, p. 425-449.
Reporters C.C. Hawley and Travis L. Hudson
Last report date 7/10/2000