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Unnamed (at head of Castle Creek)

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Zinc, Copper, Antimony
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  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 10308300
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (at head of Castle Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -164.10629, 64.87632 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is on the divide between Castle Creek, an east tributary to Big Four Creek, and an unnamed south tributary to No Mans Creek, at an elevation of 1,125 feet. This is locality 94 of Gamble (1988).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Solomon D-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Solomon NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Solomon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nome(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gangue = Iron-oxides

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation; gossan development.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -164.10629, 64.87632
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A sample of gossan localized along a fault in marble contained 720 ppm Zn, 600 ppm As, 130 ppm Sb, 130 ppm Cu, and 100 ppm Mo (Gamble, 1988). Bedrock in this area is Paleozic marble and a pelitic schist assemblage of possible Cambrian or Precambrian age (Till and others, 1986).
  • Age = Cretacous or younger Appears to post-date regional mid-Cretaceous metamorphism.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Council

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Exploration activities are not reported for this occurrence.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Gamble, 1988

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Fault-controlled gossan in marble.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 19-AUG-99 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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