Location: This prospect is located on Foster Creek, a west tributary to Camp Creek (SO057); it is about 8 miles west of Council. The location is approximate, probably within 1.5 miles of the coordinates. It is locality 12 of Cobb (1972, MF 445; 1978, OF 78-181).
Geology: An 8-foot-deep shaft and a 60-foot-long adit explore discontinuous stibnite lenses and stringers up to 1-foot wide in contorted mica schist (Anderson, 1947). Some stibnite is described as forming tiny stringers and pockets in the folds of the schist. Bedrock in the area is part of a lower Paleozoic metasedimentary assemblage (Till and others, 1986).
Workings: An 8-foot-deep shaft and a 60-foot-long adit have been driven on this prospect (Anderson, 1947).

Commodities (Major) - Sb
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Stibnite lenses and stringers in mica schist; simple Sb deposits? (Cox and Sing

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ⓘ Antimony

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ⓘ Stibnite

1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Stibnite

Formula: Sb₂S₃

References:

(2008) Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF) Open-File Report 2008-1225. US Geological Survey

Gallery:

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘ	Stibnite	2.DB.05	Sb₂S₃

List of minerals for each chemical element

S	Sulfur
S	ⓘ Stibnite	Sb₂S₃
Sb	Antimony
Sb	ⓘ Stibnite	Sb₂S₃

Other Databases

Link to USGS - Alaska:	SO055

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References

Anderson, Eskil, 1947, Mineral occurrences other than gold deposits in northwestern Alaska: Alaska Territorial Division of Mines Pamphlet 5-R, 48 p. Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p. Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

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