New potassium-argon data on the age of mineralization and metamorphism in the Willow Creek mining district, southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska
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Abstract
The now largely abandoned Willow Creek mining district, southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska, produced nearly $18,000,000 in gold and minor silver between 1909 and the early 1950's. Mineralized quartz veins, which contain gold and silver along with minor quantities of base metals (in pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, molybdenite, and arsenopyrite), cut Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary tonalite and quartzmica schist of probable Jurassic age (Ray, 1954; Silberman and others, 1976; Bela Csejtey, Jr., unpub. data, 1978).
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Publication type | Report |
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Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
Title | New potassium-argon data on the age of mineralization and metamorphism in the Willow Creek mining district, southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska |
Series title | Circular |
Series number | 772-B |
DOI | 10.3133/70180239 |
Year Published | 1978 |
Language | English |
Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office |
Publisher location | Washington, D.C. |
Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
Description | 5 p. |
Larger Work Type | Report |
Larger Work Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
Larger Work Title | The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1977 (Circular 772-B) |
First page | B-65 |
Last page | B-69 |
Country | United States |
State | Alaska |
Other Geospatial | Talkeetna Mountains, Willow Creek mining district |
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