A geochemical and morphological investigation of placer gold grains from the southern Seward Peninsula, Alaska : implications for source and transport mechanisms

• Main Author: Gauntlett, Ernest John Herbert
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Rhodes University 2015
• Subjects: Placer deposits > Alaska > Seward Peninsula; Gold alloys; Gold mines and mining > Alaska > Seward Peninsula; Geochemical surveys > Alaska > Seward Peninsula; Trace elements > Alaska > Seward Peninsula; Drift > Alaska > Seward Peninsula; Gold > Standards of fineness; Seward Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:5085; http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018202

[Partial abstract]: This study presents the first detailed geochemical and morphological characterisation of gold grains from the southern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, a region with significant historical and on-going placer gold mining. Quantitative Au, Ag, Hg, and Cu data are presented for gold grain...