Pardner's Hill

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Cobalt
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001171
MRDS ID A011870
Record type Site
Current site name Pardner's Hill
Alternate or previous names Partners Hill, Eightmile Mt.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -157.0204, 67.06343 (WGS84)
Relative position Located on northeast flank of Eightmile Mountain in sec. 12, T. 19 N., R. 8 E., Kateel River Meridian. Shown as locality 22 in Mayfield and Grybeck (1978). Location accurate to within 1000 ft. (300 m).??

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ambler River A-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Ambler River SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ambler River C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Kobuk River(hydrologic unit)

Kobuk-Selawik Rivers(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

NANA Regional Corporation, Incorporated(ANCSA Region)

ANCSA Region NTVPIC(Type of land area)

NTVPIC(Federal land areas administered by NTVPIC)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Cobalt Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 233
USGS model code 32c
Deposit model name Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn (BC name is Carbonate-hosted Cu)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -157.0204, 67.06343

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Chalcopyrite, bornite, minor galena and secondary Cu minerals in dolomite breccia. Deposit is similar to the one at Bornite (AR018) (Nana Development Corp. written comm., 1997)
  • Age = Devonian

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = active

Mining district

District name Shungnak

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Explored by 20 ft. (7 m) shaft, 30 ft. (10 m) adit, surface trenches and 21 diamond drill holes. Active exploration by Kennecott Exploration Co. in 1994, 1995, 1996 (Nana Development Corp., written comm., 1997). Selected samples contained up to 0.04 oz/ton (1.37 g/ton) Au and 1.5 oz/ton (47.9 g/ton) Ag (Sichermann and others, 1976).???

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Fritts, 1970

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Kipushi ?
Deposit Other Comments = Nana Corporation has an agreement with Kennecott Exploration Co. to explore corporation-owned lands (1997).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-APR-1997 K.R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-APR-1997 R.L. Elliott U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-APR-1997 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-APR-1997 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.