Unnamed Near Totem Bay

Unknown in Alaska, United States with commodities Thorium, Uranium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Ore body information
  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 10003639
MRDS ID A106402
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Near Totem Bay

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -133.44188, 56.47945 (WGS84)
Relative position SEE LOCATION COMMENTS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wade Hampton(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Petersburg B-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Petersburg S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Petersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Central Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tongass National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ARE AT THE APPROXIMATE CENTER OF A BLOCK OF NINE LODE CLAIMS ON SOUTHERN KUPREANOF ISLAND (U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1980). LOCALITY 26 OF GRYBECK, BERG, AND KARL (1984).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -133.44188, 56.47945

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kupreanof

Comments on the workings information

  • NINE LODE CLAIMS STAKED FOR RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN 1955; APPARENTLY NO WORK SINCE ON THESE CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map No. 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Grybeck, D. J., Berg, H. C., and Karl, S. M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Brew, D. A., Ovenshine, A. T., Karl, S. M., and Hunt, S. J., 1984, Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg and parts of the Port Alexander and Sumdum 1:250,000 quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-405, 43 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Brew, D.A., 1997, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg B-5 quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-156-G, scale 63,360, one sheet, 20 p. pamphlet.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF THE CLAIM BLOCK. ROCKS IN THE VICINITY CONSIST OF OF A THICK SEQUENCE OF QUATERNARY-TERTIARY RHYOLITE (BREW, 1997 [OF 97-156-G]).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1998 Berg, H. C. (Grybeck, D. J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.