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White Mountain Creek

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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 10003342
MRDS ID A106087
Record type Site
Current site name White Mountain Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -141.16303, 67.47987 (WGS84)
Relative position Located on spur ridge about 2 mi 3.2 km) west-southwest of VABM Cone, at locality 2 of Barker (1981, p. 25); located to within 3000 ft (915 m).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coleen B-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Coleen SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Coleen(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
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Magnetite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification and propylitization of a shear zone in phyllites

Nearby scientific data

(1) -141.16303, 67.47987
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Mineralized (disseminated chalcopyrite and galena) float in phyllites occurs in an east-northeast trending belt 50-150 ft (15-46 m) wide by 1200 ft (366 m) long. Bedrock in the area is black phyllite and interbedded green and maroon argillite of Paleozoic? age locally intruded by porphyritic rhyolite sills and dikes, and mafic dikes (Barker, 1981, p. 64-68).

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 = Rock samples contain up to 47 ppm Ag, 3.3% Cu, 6600 ppm Pb and 1300 ppm Zn. Soil samples contain up to 480 ppm Cu, 1.8 ppm Ag, 530 ppm Pb and 159 ppm Zn (Barker, 1981, p. 70-74).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Barker, J.C., and Clautice, K.H., 1978, Mineral reconnaissance of the Porcupine River region: a summary report: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 87-78, 20 p.

  • Deposit

    Barker, J.C., 1981, Mineral investigations in the Porcupine River drainage, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 27-81, 189 p., 2 sheets.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Barker (1981)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Lode, vein?
Deposit Other Comments = See MAS/MILS Sequence # 0020330007 (USBM, 1995)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-OCT-1992 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey

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