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Ester Dome (Ryan Lode)

Property Details


Interpreted mineral system (using mineral system classification of Hofstra and Kreiner, 2020*)

Activity by Year


Year Activity Status Operator Project Name Description
2017 Exploration Exploration Project Kinross Gold Corp. (Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc.) Fairbanks district Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. also collected and geochemically analyzed soil samples on their Ryan Lode and Coffee Dome properties, and they conducted exploration on their Circle-area claims in 2017.

Production Stats


Year Total Rock Mined (short tons) Waste Rock (short tons) Ore Mined (short tons) Ore Milled (short tons) Heap Leach Ore (short tons) Total Concentrate Produced (short tons) Pb Ore Grade % Pb Recovered (short tons) Zn Ore Grade % Zn Recovered (short tons) Au Head/Ore Grade (OPT) Au Recovered (troy ounces) Au Recovery % Ag Ore Grade (OPT) Ag Recovered (million troy ounces) Coal (short tons) Other Other Amount Other Units

Resources


Source Year Description Property Phase Category Resource (short tons) Cu % Cu (thousand pounds) Pb % Pb (thousand pounds) Zn % Zn (thousand pounds) Au (OPT) Au (thousand oz) Ag (OPT) Ag (thousand oz) Mo % Mo (thousand pounds) Co % Co (thousand pounds) Barite % Barite (thousand pounds) TREO % TREO (thousand pounds) Graphite % Graphite (thousand pounds)

* Hofstra, A.H., and Kreiner, D.C., 2020, Systems-Deposits-Commodities-Critical Minerals Table for the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2020-1042, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201042