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2026-08-26

A reconnaissance-level study of post-mining hydrogeochemical conditions was carried out at the Brewery Creek gold deposit within the Tintina Gold Province. The deposit is characterized byepizonal mineralization with a consistent arsenic-gold-mercury-antimony geochemical signature. Surface discharges and seeps in the area are naturally alkaline (pH=7.6-8.2), Ca-HCO3 ¯-SO4²¯ waters. Upstream from the recognized mineralization, waters contain <3 ¿g/L As and <1 ¿g/L Sb. Water samples immediately downstream from the ore bodies show maximum concentrations of 18 ¿g/L dissolved and 47 ¿g/L total arsenic, and 18 ¿g/L dissolved and 21 ¿g/L total antimony. Two kilometres below the mineralization, on lower Laura Creek, arsenic concentrations are diluted to background levels of <3 ¿g/L, and antimony levels are still slightly elevated at 9-10 ¿g/L. Comparison with hydrogeochemical data from Donlin Creek, an undeveloped epizonal deposit in Alaska, indicates that elevated concentrations of a few tens of ¿g/L arsenic and antimony are typical of waters draining such gold systems, regardless of their state of development. In addition to their usefulness for the construction of geoenvironmental…

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