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Imelyak River

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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 10001195
MRDS ID A011907
Record type Site
Current site name Imelyak River

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -157.22355, 67.63955 (WGS84)
Relative position Located near the head of the Imelyak River at approximately 2000 ft. (600 m) elevation in T. 26 N., R. 7 E., Kateel River Meridian. Shown as locality 75 in Mayfield and Grybeck (1978) and 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-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

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

Ambler River C(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
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Azurite Ore
Barite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 72
USGS model code 19a
Deposit model name Polymetallic replacement
Mark3 model number 47

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -157.22355, 67.63955
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Sphalerite and galena in shear zone less than 3 ft. (1 m) wide in limestone; and malachite, azurite, and barite vein less than 6 ft. (2 m) wide cutting limestone. Occurrence may be related to other sedimentary rock-hosted mineral occurrences in the Brooks Range; see for example Schmidt (1997, p.35-65) and Schmidt and Werdon (1993, p. 143).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Noatak

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 = Polymetallic vein? (see Schmidt and Werdon, 1993, p. 143)
Deposit Other Comments = Located on land within the Noatak National Preserve.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 06-MAY-1997 K.R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 06-MAY-1997 R.L. Elliott U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 06-MAY-1997 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 06-MAY-1997 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

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