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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003408
MRDS ID A106164
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -142.00318, 68.39989 (WGS84)
Relative position Location plotted is locality 504 of Barker (1981, pl. A-3), about 2 mi (3.2 km) east southeast of Bear Mountain summit on southeast projecting ridge; known to within 1000 ft (305 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

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

Table Mountain SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Table Mountain C(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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -142.00318, 68.39989
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Greenstone lense associated with metasiltstone unit and unconformably(?) overlain by Devonian-Mississippian conglomerate

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 = Greenstone? rock sample contains 1% copper, and slightly anomalous silver and molybdenum; soil and stream sediment samples 533D, 600C-602C of Barker (1981, pl. A-3) 1 mi (1.6 km) to the east have as much as 920 ppm Pb, as well as slightly anomalous amounts of Cu, Zn, Mo, and other elements (Barker, 1981, p. 40-50).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Brosge', W.P., and Reiser, H.N., 1976, Preliminary geologic and mineral resource maps (excluding petroleum), Arctic National Wildlife Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-539, 4 sheets, scale 1:500,000.

  • Deposit

    Barker, J.C., 1981, Mineral investigations of certain lands in the eastern Brooks Range, 1978: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File 37-81, 288 p., 8 sheets.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Barker (1981)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Unknown

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-SEP-1996 J.H. Dover U.S. Geological Survey

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