North star gold belt

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1665

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  NSGB

• Status:

  Complete

• Description:

  The North Star Gold Belt (NSGB) project was conceived in order to estimate lode gold resources in the belt by finding the best geologic analogies for the Belt and using these for comparison. A cooperative agreement between the DGGS and the U.S. Bureau of Mines was signed in 1987, requesting a quantitative assessment using a computer modeling process called ROCKVAL on the gold belt between Circle and Kantishna. ROCKVAL was coined when Alaska State Geologist Ross G. Schaff commented, "All rocks have value; it's just that some are more valuahle than others." Project created for legacy rock samples inventoried at DGGS.

• Project Date(s):

  1987 - 1990

• Primary Contact:

  Newberry, Rainer J.

• DGGS section:

  Mineral Resources

• Project Participants:

• Stations/Samples:

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Publications

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PDF 89-9

Newberry, R.J., and Burns, L.E., 1989, The probabilistic estimation of gold resources in the Circle-Fairbanks-Kantishna area: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 89-9, 34 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,077,120. https://doi.org/10.14509/1413

PDF 88-30

Newberry, R.J., and Burns, L.E., 1988, North star gold belt, Alaska: a briefing report to assist in making a rockval mineral resource analysis: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 88-30, 55 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/1379

PDF 88-11

Burns, L.E., Newberry, R.J., and Pessel, G.H., 1988, The probabilistic estimation of mineral resources in the Lime Peak-Mt. Prindle area: Part 2: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 88-11, 8 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/1360

PDF 88-12

Burns, L.E., Johnson, K.J., and Newberry, R.J., 1988, Discriminant function for separating tin from non-tin granites: application to the Hope Granite Suite, eastern interior Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 88-12, 14 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/1361

PDF 88-23

Newberry, R.J., Burns, L.E., Solie, D.N., and Clautice, K.H., 1988, A revised geologic model for the North Star gold belt, interior Alaska: progress report: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 88-23, 21 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/1372

PDF 87-34

Clautice, K.H., 1987, Rock sample analyses (1987): Circle, Fairbanks, Healy, and Kantishna areas: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Public Data File 87-34, 67 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/1346

MP 29

Smith, T.E., Pessel, G.H., and Wiltse, M.A., eds., 1987, Mineral assessment of the Lime Peak-Mt. Prindle area, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 29, 712 p., 13 sheets, scale 1:63,360. https://doi.org/10.14509/731

White, L.P. and others, 1987

White, L.P., White, B.A., and Dillon, J.T., 1987, Quantifying the economic potential of undiscovered mineral resources: a case study of Kantishna Hills, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines, 26 p.