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Upper Tazimina

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, 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. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002127
MRDS ID A013018
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Tazimina

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -153.91654, 60.10943 (WGS84)
Relative position Locality is approximately 4 km S-SW of the mouth of Ospook Creek. This is locality 36 of Nelson and others (1985) and locality 35 of MacKevett and Holloway (1977). NE1/4 sec. 9, T. 1 S., R. 27 W., of the Seward Meridian. Location is accurate within 800 m.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake and Peninsula(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Lake Clark SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lake Clark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lake Clark(hydrologic unit)

Kvichak-Port Heiden(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lake Clark 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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Unknown

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 59
USGS model code 18b
Deposit model name Skarn Cu
Mark3 model number 8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -153.91654, 60.10943
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Occurrence is a very small area of strong epidote - quartz - magnetite - chalcopyrite veining within 0.9 m of the contact of Tertiary andesite porphyry breccia with fine-grained metasedimentary rocks. Resource Associates of Alaska (1976) report two rock samples taken near the metasediment-volcanic contact yielded values as high as 11.2 ppm Ag, 1,100 ppm Cu, 180 ppm Pb, and 680 ppm Zn. One nearby stream sediment sample showed slight anomaly (109 ppm Cu). However, these results could not be reproduced by Nelson and others (1985).
  • Age = Tertiary or younger, based on geologic relationships.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Bristol Bay

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = No production

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = No reserves

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Resource Associates of Alaska (1976) report two rock samples taken near the metasediment-volcanic contact yielded values as high as 11.2 ppm Ag, 1,100 ppm Cu, 180 ppm Pb, and 680 ppm Zn. One nearby stream sediment sample showed slight anomaly (109 ppm Cu). However, these results could not be reproduced by Nelson and others (1985).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., 1976, Geology and geochemistry of certain land within the Lake Clark National Park: Contract report for U.S. Bureau of Mines, 109 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., and Reed, B.L., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Iliamna, Lake Clark, Lime Hills, and McGrath quadrangles, Alaska - Supplement to Open-File Report 76-485: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-1343-A, 25 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., and Reed, B.L., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Iliamna, Lake Clark, Lime Hills, and McGrath quadrangles, Alaska - Supplement to Open-File Report 76-485: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-1343-B, 20 p.

  • Deposit

    MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous mineral deposits in the western part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-F, 38 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Nelson and others, 1985

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Cu skarn (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 18b)
Deposit Other Comments = Mineralization very sparse. Site is in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-JUN-1998 M.L. Miller U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 15-JUN-1998 D.P. Bickerstaff U.S. Geological Survey

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