| Deposit ID | 10307808 |
|---|---|
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Unnamed (north of Mt. Marchainville) |
| Geographic coordinates: | -137.0221, 58.47971 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | The occurrence is uncertainly located. It is either about two miles north of Mt. Marchainville at an elevation between 2500-3000 feet (NE 1/4, section 20, T 39 S., R. 51 E., of the Copper River Meridian) or about about 0.5 mile west-southwest of that location. The occurrence is number 83 of MacKevett and others (1971) and location 16 of Kimball and others (1978). |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Hoonah-Angoon(Census area)
Alaska(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Mount Fairweather B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)
Mount Fairweather SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Mount Fairweather(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Glacier Bay(hydrologic unit)
Northern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)
Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)
Alaska(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Glacier Bay National Park(National Park)
National Park NPS(Type of land area)
NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| United States | Alaska |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Iron | Primary |
| Titanium Critical | Primary |
| Copper | Secondary |
| Nickel Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Ilmenite | Ore |
| Magnetite | Ore |
| Pyrrhotite | Ore |
| (1) | -137.0221, 58.47971 |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|
| District name | Yakutat |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | MF011 |
Rossman, Darwin, 1963, Geology and petrology of two stocks of layered gabbro in the Fairweather Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1121-F, p. F1-F50.
MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Brew, D.A., Hawley, C.C., Huff, L.C., and Smith, J.G., 1971, Mineral resources of Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 632, 90 p., 12 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Berg, H.C., Jones, D. L., and Richter, D. H., 1972, Gravina-Nutzotin Belt-tectonic significance of an Upper Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic sequence in southern and southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 800-D, p. D1-D24.
Brew, D.A., Johnson, B.R., Grybeck, D., Griscom, A., Barnes, D.F., Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, 670 p.
Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources, in Brew, D. A., and others, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument wilderness study area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, p. C1-C375.
Foley, J.Y., Light, T.D., Nelson, S.W., and Harris, R.A., 1997, Mineral occurrences associated with mafic-ultramafic and related alkaline complexes in Alaska: Economic Geology, Monograph 9, p. 396-449.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Model Name = Heavy-mineral segregations near basal contact of synorogenic layered mafic intrusive of Tertiary age (Foley and others, 1997). |
| Deposit | Other Comments = the occurrences are in extremely rugged country in the south part of the Crillon-LaPerouse intrusion in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 05-APR-99 | Hawley, C.C. | Hawley Resource Group |
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