1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

North Star Prospect

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000628
MRDS ID A011242
Record type Site
Current site name North Star Prospect
Alternate or previous names Dalton Group Claims: Star, Jumbo, Caribou, Polly Wonder, Dalton Group: Claims: Star, Jumbo, Caribou, Polly Wonder

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -150.96678, 63.53845 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Denali(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Denali C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Denali NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mount McKinley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Denali National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATED FROM SKETCH MAP OF QUIGLEY HILL CLAIMS, USGS BULL 849-F, PLATE 29. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Analytical data

Result REPORTED TO HAVE ASSAYED 60 OZ/TON AG, DAVIS, 1923, THE KANTISHNA REGION...

Nearby scientific data

(1) -150.96678, 63.53845
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Dip }
    Thickness 0.15M
  • General form VEIN
    Dip }
    Thickness 0.15M

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROBABLY IN VEIN CUTTING BIRCH CREEK ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kantishna

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ADGGS RI 83-12, P. 17

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT WORK DONE IN EARLY 20'S

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 6 IN STRINGER
Deposit RELATED: POLLY WONDER ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-84 Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 14-APR-95 Waller, Nichelle (Mosier, Dan) U.S. Geological Survey PUT DIMENSION DATA INTO THE ORE BODY FIELDS FROM THE DEPOSIT COMMENTS FIELD.

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.