Slate Creek No. 1 Occurrence, Hope Mining District, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Slate Creek No. 1 Occurrence	Occurrence
Hope Mining District	Mining District
Kenai Peninsula Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This deposit may be an extension of the veins at the Slate Creek No. 2 (SR040) and the Kenai Lu mine (SR035). All three veins are fault controlled and are nearly on strike (Martin and others, 1915).
Location: This occurrence is located in the NE1/4 section 15, T. 9 N., R. 1 E., of the Seward Meridian. It is at an elevation of 1,500 feet on Slate Creek. This is location 18 of Cobb and Richter (1972), location 13 of MacKevett and Holloway (1977), location 5 of Cobb and Tysdal (1980), and location S-313 of Jansons and others (1984). The location is accurate to within a quarter of a mile.
Geology: The occurrence consists of two small fault-controlled quartz veins in sandstone of the Valdez Group of Late Cretaceous age (Tysdal, 1978 [MF-880-A]). One fault strikes N70E and dips 70SE; the other fault strikes N50E and dips 10-15E (Moffit, 1905). The veins carry arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, sphalerite, and free gold (Jansons and others, 1984). This deposit may be an extension of the veins at the Slate Creek No. 2 (SR040) and the Kenai Lu mine (SR035). All three veins are fault controlled and are nearly on strike (Martin and others, 1915).
Workings: The U.S. Bureau of Mines visited the occurrence in 1981 but did not collect any samples (Jansons and others, 1983).
Age: Cretaceous or younger; the veins cut rocks of the Valdez Group of Late Cretaceous age.

Commodities (Major) - Au; (Minor) - Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	SR038

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