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Unnamed (south of Windy Creek)

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. 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 10307595
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (south of Windy Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.32475, 63.09163 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is at an elevation of about 4,300 feet, about 4.75 miles east of Susitna Lodge and about 2 miles south of Windy Creek. The map site is on the boundary of secs. 14 and 15, T. 21 S., R. 2 E., of the Fairbanks Meridian. The location is accurate to about 500 feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Matanuska-Susitna(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Healy A-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Mount Hayes SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Susitna River(hydrologic unit)

Susitna River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gangue = iron carbonate

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Azurite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitic alteration of greenstones.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.32475, 63.09163
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The area of this occurrence is underlain by the Middle or Upper Triassic Nikolai Greenstone, a thick sequence of subaerial and submarine basalt flows and minor interbedded volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, aquagene and epiclastic tuff, breccia, argillite, and radiolarian chert (Nokleberg and others, 1992). The deposit is in a hydrothermally altered shear zone in greenstone, and consists of quartz, epidote, chalcopyrite, and an iron carbonate mineral. Weathering produces malachite- and azurite-coated float and encrustations.
  • Age = Triassic or younger.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Valdez Creek

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Nokleberg, W.J., and others, 1992, Circum-North Pacific terrane map, in Tracy, K.V., Anker, E. M., Ryan, C., Hoffman, V. , eds., International conference on Arctic margins, p. 44.

  • Deposit

    Saunders, R.H., 1961, Susitna-MacClaren area: Alaska Division of Mines and Mineral Report for the year 1961, 40 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Saunders, 1961

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Hydrothermally altered shear zone.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-APR-00 D.L. Stevens Stevens Exploration Management Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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