Breen East Prospect (Hobson), Nome Mining District, Nome Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Breen East Prospect (Hobson)	Prospect
Nome Mining District	Mining District
Nome Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: The Breen East prospect includes two patented claims, Hobson Gold Lode and the adjacent Great American Lode. These are in the south-central part of section 26, T. 8 S., R. 33 W., Kateel River Meridian. The claims are on the top of the ridge that separates Hobson Creek from upper Manila Creek. Discovery trenches in the northeast part of the Hobson Gold Lode are about at an elevation of 1,600 feet. The location given is near the center end line that separates the two claims; it is within about 500 feet of the coordinates. The location of the discovery cuts on the Hobson Gold Lode claim is about at the site of locality 27 of Hummel (1962, MF-248), who, followed by Cobb (1972 [MF 463], 1978 [OFR 78-93]), appears to have mislocated the Breen East prospect.
Geology: The Breen East prospect includes two claims patented in 1924, the Hobson Gold Lode and the adjacent Great American Lode. Hummel reported this to be an iron sulfide occurrence that may include arsenopyrite, pyrite, and, in some cases, pyrrhotite. The claims are immediately to the east of the northeastmost Sliscovich group of patented claims (NM086). The Breen East claims lie along a steep northeast-trending fault mapped by Hummel (1962, location 27 [MF 248]). Bundtzen and others (1994) show the same northeast-trending fault as a lineament that passes northerly into a fault. The country rock is interlayered calcareous schist, quartz-muscovite schist, and lesser amounts of marble, schistose marble and black quartz schist. Part of the area is underlain by a metagranodiorite (Hummel, 1962 [MF 248]) that approximately corresponds to a muscovite-bearing felsic metavolcanic schist mapped by Bundtzen and others (1994).
Workings: Workings at the time of the patent application included six shafts, six surface cuts, and two discovery locations. The two claims were patented in 1924; there has been no recent exploration.

Commodities (Major) - Au (?); (Minor) - Sb (?)
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Sulfide-bearing quartz veins (?) in metasedimentary rocks.

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	NM085

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