Ester Dome Project |
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Ester Dome |
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USA
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Province |
Alaska |
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Close to |
Fairbanks |
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PRODUCTION
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Latitude / Longitude |
64 N 56 / 147 W 56 |
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Legends
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Risk and valuation analysis of the Ester Dome Project |
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Location of the Ester Dome Project |
Ester Dome is about 8 mi west of Fairbanks, Alaska and Eagle Creek is about 10 mi north of Fairbanks.
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History of the Ester Dome Project |
Exploration and development of the gold lodes at Ester Dome began shortly after discovery of gold at Ester
Creek in 1905 (approximately 2 mi west of Silverado’s properties). By 1912, there were four custom gold mills
operating at Ester Dome, including one at the Mohawk Mine, about 1 mi southwest of Silverado’s Grant
Mine (Hill, 1933).
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Geology of the Ester Dome Project |
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The Fairbanks schist is correlative with the poly-deformed, low-to-medium grade, metamorphic rocks in the
southern Livengood quadrangle, which includes the ‘Wickersham Grit’, now regarded as Late Proterozoic in
age (Weber et al., 1992). Robinson et more...
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Data last updated on : 7/11/2008
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