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Unnamed (near Coco Creek)

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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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 10308436
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (near Coco Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -165.06838, 65.47531 (WGS84)
Relative position This is located on the ridgeline along the northwest side of upper Coco Creek in the northeast Teller B-1 quadrangle. It is along a marble layer in schist at an elevation of 1,350 feet. This is locality 19 of Cobb and Sainsbury (1972). Cobb (1975) summarized the one reference for this occurrence under the name 'Unnamed occurrence'.

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-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben SW(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)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz veining, sideritic carbonate replacement, and possibly silicification.

Nearby scientific data

(1) DOnx
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Marble intercalated in schist is locally red-stained and replaced by sideritic carbonate with small quartz veinlets. Two samples from this locality contained anomalous gold (Sainsbury and others, 1969, p. 17-18, 36).
  • Age = Not known.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Port Clarence

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = None

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Sainsbury and others, 1969

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Indeterminate.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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