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Koness River Headwaters

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Cobalt, Manganese, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  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 10003118
MRDS ID A015651
Record type Site
Current site name Koness River Headwaters

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -144.60329, 68.41984 (WGS84)
Relative position Location plotted is locality 30 of Barker (1978, p. 14) and cited by Cobb and others (1981, p. A4); in headwater area of Koness River; within one mile (1.6 km).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Arctic B-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Arctic SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Arctic(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -144.60329, 68.41984
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Malachite and pyrite in green shale associated with red hematitic shales.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Sheenjek

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Stream sediment samples from area contain more than 1% Mn (Cobb and others, 1981, p. A4).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Barker, J.C., 1978, Mineral Investigations of certain lands in the eastern Brooks Range: a summary report: US Bureau of Mines Open-File No. 63-78

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1995, A CD-ROM of spatial data extracted from the Minerals Availability System/Minerals Industry Location System (MAS/MILS): U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication 12-95.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., Mayfield, C.F., and Brosge, W.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in eleven quadrangles in northern Alaska (Arctic, Baird Mountains, Chandler Lake, DeLong Mountains, Demarcation Point, Howard Pass, Misheguk Mountain, Mount Michelson, Noatak, Point Lay, and Table Mountain); Supplement to Open-File Report 75-628; Part A, Summaries of data to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-767-A, 25 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb and others (1981)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Lode; disseminated, Cu in shale.
Deposit Other Comments = See MAS/MILS Sequence # 0020240002, USBM (1995)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-JUN-1992 M.T. Powers U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-JUN-1992 D.F. Huber U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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