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Louise

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Antimony, Tin
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Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308696
Record type Site
Current site name Louise

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -159.12088, 61.66535 (WGS84)
Relative position This prospect is on the west side of the cirque valley at the head of Cobalt Creek in the Russian Mountains. The map site is at an elevation of about 1,850 feet, about 0.25 mile west of a small cirque-basin lake, in the NW1/4 sec. 8, T. 18 N., R. 54 W., of the Seward Meridian. This is sample locality 12 of Bundtzen and Laird (1991).
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Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Antimony Secondary
Tin Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • Quartz and tourmaline veining.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

(1) -159.12088, 61.66535
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Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The Louise prospect is about 1,500 feet northwest of the Owhat prospect (RM016). According to Bundtzen and Laird (1991), it was first reported by Holzheimer (1926) as a 1,000-foot-long gold-arsenic deposit. Bundtzen and Laird (1991) described the deposit as an arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, quartz, and black tourmaline vein that trends northwest for at least 245 feet along the contact between syenite and an altered andesite porphyry dike. The width of this poorly exposed vein could not be determined. A sample of the vein contained 4.1 ppm gold, 10 percent arsenic, 0.99 percent antimony, and 0.12 percent tin (Bundtzen and Laird, 1991). The host rocks are part of the Upper Cretaceous intrusive complex of the Russian Mountains.
  • Age = Late Cretaceous or Tertiary. Veins crosscut part of the intrusive complex of the Russian Mountains. Quartz monzonite from this complex has yielded a K/Ar age of 70.3 +/- 2.1 Ma (Bundtzen and Laird, 1991).

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Aniak

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface observation and sampling have been completed (Bundtzen and Laird, 1991).

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency Database name Acronym Record ID Notes
USGS Alaska Resource Data File ARDF RM017

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Bundzten, T.K., and Laird, G.M., 1991, Geology and mineral resources of the Russian Mission C-1 Quadrangle, southwest Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 109, 24 p.

  • Deposit

    Holzheimer, F.W., 1926, Lode prospects in the Russian Mountains, Kuskokwim River region: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Miscellaneous Report 81-1, 15 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Bundtzen and Laird, 1991

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Polymetallic veins? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-JUN-2001 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology
Reporter 10-JUN-2001 Madelyn A. Millholland Millholland & Associates