Louise Prospect, Aniak Mining District, Bethel Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Louise Prospect	Prospect
Aniak Mining District	Mining District
Bethel Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: 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).
Geology: 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.
Workings: Surface observation and sampling have been completed (Bundtzen and Laird, 1991).
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).
Alteration: Quartz and tourmaline veining.

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Sb, Sn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Polymetallic veins? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	RM017

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