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Ongoveyuk River

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003569
MRDS ID A106327
Record type Site
Current site name Ongoveyuk River

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -169.86318, 63.38916 (WGS84)
Relative position This site is on a small, unnamed east tributary to the Ongoveyuk River. The Ongoveyuk River flows northeast to Ongoveyuk Lagoon on the northeast coast of St. Lawrence Island. The unnamed east tributary enters Ongoveyuk River 3 1/2 miles upstream of the mouth. The site is the unnamed drainage. It was not included by Cobb (1972; 1980).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saint Lawrence C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Saint Lawrence SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Saint Lawrence(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Lawrence Island(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 208
USGS model code 31a
Deposit model name Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb
Mark3 model number 13

Nearby scientific data

(1) -169.86318, 63.38916
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The one stream sediment sample from this drainage contains 2,000 ppm manganese, 0.7 ppm silver, 3,000 ppm barium, 15 ppm molybdenum, and 300 ppm zinc (Patton and Csejtey, 1972). The bedrock here is minimally exposed but includes part of a Mississippian to Triassic limestone, chert, shale, and siltstone sequence that includes a condensed section similar to the Triassic Shublik Formation on the North Slope and in the Brooks Range (Patton and Dutro, 1969). The weakly to moderately anomalous metal values at this site are 2 miles northwest of a drainage (see SL020) where many highly anomalous lead and silver values in stream sediments were found.
  • Age = If the stream sediment metal concentrations here reflect mineralization, this mineralization could be stratiform and similar in age to that of the enclosing sedimentary rocks (Mississippian to Triassic). Alternatively, the potential mineralization could be related to mid-Cretaceous quartz monzonite that intrudes Mississippian limestone 2 miles to the east of this drainage (Patton and Csejtey, 1980).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Bering Sea

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The one stream sediment sample from this drainage contains 2,000 ppm manganese, 0.7 ppm silver, 3,000 ppm barium, 15 ppm molybdenum, and 300 ppm zinc (Patton and Csejtey, 1972).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Patton, W.W., Jr., and Dutro, J. T., Jr., 1969, Preliminary report on the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary sequence on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 650-D. p. D138-D143.

  • Deposit

    Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1972, Analyses of stream sediment and rock samples from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, 1966-1971: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-293, 78 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.

  • Deposit

    Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1980, Geologic map of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-1203, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Saint Lawrence quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-465, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Patton and Csejtey, 1972

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Base metal deposits in sedimentary rocks (synsedimentary or epigenetic). Deposit model 31a (?); sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-SEP-1998 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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