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Indian River Occurrence

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Zinc, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003059
MRDS ID A015584
Record type Site
Current site name Indian River Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -153.72963, 66.01124 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hughes A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bettles SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hughes(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-458, LOC. 6. DEPOSIT DOWNSTREAM FROM PLACER MINING AREA NEAR CONFLUENCE OF UNNAMED CREEK AND INDIAN RIVER. SEE REF. 2., P. 4, LOC 6. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Both The Intrusive Rocks And The Intruded Ondesite Are Much Oxidized And Altered

Analytical data

Result AU: 6 PPM (.16 OZ PER TON)
Result ZN: 200-700 PPM. SEE REF 2, P. 5, TABLE 1.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -153.72963, 66.01124
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hughes

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MF-458 (D-2), LOC. 6

  • Deposit

    USGS C 570, P. 4-6.

  • Deposit

    USGS OF 81-847 B, LOC. 6

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
Deposit SPHALERITE DISSEMINATED IN HIGHLY ALTERED, FINE GRAINED, PYRITIFEROUS INTRUSIVE ROCK THAT ALSO CONTAINS AS MUCH AS 6 PPM AU DOWNSTREAM FROM PLACER AREA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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