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Natmotirak Creek

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10001155
MRDS ID A011852
Record type Site
Current site name Natmotirak Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -158.89359, 67.68951 (WGS84)
Relative position Located along Natmotirak Creek in T. 26 N., R. 1 W., Kateel River Meridian. Shown as locality 3 in Mayfield and Grybeck (1978) and is accurate to within 2000 ft. (600 m).???

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ambler River C-6(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Ambler River NW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ambler River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Noatak River(hydrologic unit)

Noatak River-Lisburne Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Noatak 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
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 208
USGS model code 31a
Deposit model name Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb
Mark3 model number 13

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -158.89359, 67.68951
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Visible chalcopyrite and malachite in less than 3 ft. (1 m) wide quartz vein cutting limestone (Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978). Occurrence could be similar to several other sediment-hosted occurrences in the Brooks Range that formed from the dewatering of a large sedimentary basin (Schmidt, 1997, p. 35-65; Schmidt and Werdon, 1993, p. 143).
  • Age = Paleozoic

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Noatak

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = 10 ppm Ag in one rock sample (Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mayfield, C.F. and Grybeck, D., 1978, Mineral occurrences and resource map of the Ambler river quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-120I, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Schmidt, J.M., 1997, Shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska, 1997: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 35-65.

  • Deposit

    Schmidt, J.M., and Werdon, M.B., 1993, Clastic-hosted stratiform, vein/breccia and disseminated Zn-Pb-Ag deposits of the northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska; are they different expersions of dewatering of the same source basin? [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. 143.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn ?
Deposit Other Comments = Located within Noatak National Preserve

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-MAY-1997 K.R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 08-MAY-1997 R.L. Elliott U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 08-MAY-1997 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 08-MAY-1997 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

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