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Camp Creek (tributary to Lost River)

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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
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  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308411
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek (tributary to Lost River)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -167.1494, 65.47027 (WGS84)
Relative position Camp Creek is an east tributary to Cassiterite Creek about 0.75 miles upstream from Cassiterite Creek's mouth on Lost River and 2,000 feet south of the Lost River Mine (TE048-TE051). The prospect is on the south side of Camp Creek at elevations of 300 to 500 feet. This locality was not identified separately by Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized relevant references under the name 'Lost River'.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nome(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Teller SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Teller(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imuruk Basin(hydrologic unit)

Norton Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

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BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysoberyl Ore
Fluorite Ore
Diaspore Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Fluorite and beryllium-bearing mineralization is thought to be a type of distal alteration to tin metallizing sytems in this area. Mass balance calculations show significant SiO2, Al2O3, alkali, and fluorine enrichment with mineralization (Sainsbury, 1968, p. 1567). The limestone is commonly dolomitized but the relation of this alteration to sulfide and fluorite mineralization is not clear.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -167.1494, 65.47027
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Fluorite- and beryllium-bearing veins and veinlets are common in Ordovician limestone along a 2,400 foot-long east-west trending zone on the south side of Camp Creek (Sainsbury, 1969, plate 3). The principal controls on the veins and veinlets are nearly vertical sheeted fractures, closely spaced joints, brecciated zones, and borders to igneous dikes. .Mineralization includes fluorite, diaspore, tourmaline, muscovite, chrysoberyl, hematite, and todorokite. Stibnite in fluorite and diaspore has been identified on the ridgeline east of Camp Creek. USBM diamond drilling encountered stannite- and pyrite-bearing sulfide zones within the fluorite and beryllium-bearing mineralization. Nineteen surface samples contained 0.31 to 6.00% BeO; the fluorite content, determined for 8 of these samples, ranged from 54.6 to 62.4% (Sainsbury, 1963, p. 7). Diamond drilling by the USBM and Lost River Mining Corporation enabled a resource calculation of 2,116,000 tons of 30.6% fluorite in an open-pit configuration and 1,695,000 tons of 30.0 % fluorite that would require underground mining (WGM, 1972, p. 63). These calculations used a cut-off grade of 15% fluorite and an overall weighted average of at least 23% fluorite. The general dimensions of the mineralized zone determined by this drilling are 3,000 feet long, up to 130 feet thick, and 300 feet downdip (apparently shallow to moderate south dip); mineralization is open along strike and dip (WGM, 1973, p. 53). The Lost River Mining Corporation work did not identify other valuable constituents in the mineralized material.
  • Age = the age of the mineralization is assumed to be related to the development of tin systems in the Lost River area and therefore Late Cretaceous, the age of the tin-mineralizing granites there (Hudson and Arth, 1983).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Active?

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = Diamond drilling by the USBM and Lost River Mining Corporation enabled a resource calculation of 2,116,000 tons of 30.6% fluorite in an open-pit configuration and 1,695,000 tons of 30.0 % fluorite that would require underground mining (WGM, 1972, p. 63). These calculations used a cut-off grade of 15% fluorite and an overall weighted average of at least 23% fluorite. The general dimensions of the mineralized zone determined by this drilling are 3,000 feet long, up to 130 feet thick, and 300 feet downdip (apparently shallow to moderate south dip); mineralization is open along strike and dip (WGM, 1973, p. 53).

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface dozer trenches, 13 USBM diamond drill holes totalling 2,158 feet, and 23 Lost River Mining Corporation diamond drill holes totalling 8,146 feet have been completed on the prospect.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury, 1968; Sainsbury, 1969; WGM, 1972

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Fluorite-, beryllium-, and sulfide-bearing veins and replacements in limestone (Sainsbury, 1968)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-MAY-98 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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