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Unnamed (near Elephants Nose)

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Thorium, Uranium
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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 10308069
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (near Elephants Nose)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.51185, 56.43174 (WGS84)
Relative position Coordinates are at the approximate location of a single claim staked in 1955 and apparently not active since (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980).

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-2(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Thorium Primary
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.51185, 56.43174
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = No published information other than claim staked for uranium. Brew (1997 [OF 97-156-D]) has mapped the rocks in the vicinity as Cretaceous low- to medium-grade schist and semischist derived from Cretaceous-Jurassic Seymour Canal Formation sedimentary rocks.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Probably inactive

Mining district

District name Petersburg

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = One lode claim staked for radioactive minerals in 1955; apparently not active since.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 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., 1997, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg B-2 quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-156-D, 21 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Insufficient evidence to assign.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-98 H.C. Berg and D.J. Grybeck U.S. Geological Survey

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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