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Rex Point

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Tungsten
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  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 10308884
MRDS ID A015695
Record type Site
Current site name Rex Point
Related records 10003161

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -163.32344, 66.07737 (WGS84)
Relative position This beach placer is at the mouth of Rex Canyon on Kotzebue Sound about a mile southeast of Rex Point. This site is in section 21, T. 8 N., R. 22 W., of the Kateel River Meridian. Location is accurate to within 1,000 feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kotzebue A-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Kotzebue SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kotzebue C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve(National Preserve)

National Preserve NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -163.32344, 66.07737
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Beach sand at the mouth of Rex Creek contains a trace of scheelite, and minor to trace amounts of iron oxide minerals and zircon (Berryhill, 1962).
  • Age = Quaternary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The U.S. Bureau of Mines collected 15 pan concentrate samples from the beach at the mouth of Rex Point (Berryhill, 1962).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Berryhill, R.V., 1962, Reconnaissance sampling of beach and rivermouth deposits, Norton Bay and Kotzebue Sound, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 1, 13 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Tungsten occurrences in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Resource Map MR-66, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in five quadrangles in west central Alaska (Hughes, Kotzebue, Melozitna, Selawik and Shungnak): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-627, 58 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Berryhill, 1962

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Placer tungsten?

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-NOV-99 Williams, Anita U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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