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Unnamed (northwest of hill 1325)

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Chromium
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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 10002520
MRDS ID A013463
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (northwest of hill 1325)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -156.76809, 64.17752 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is located in the southern Kaiyuh Hills, 36 miles south of Galena. It is in a body of dunite exposed in a 6-square-mile area between the Yuki River and the East Fork Yuki River. The occurrence is at an elevation of approximately 1200 feet, about halfway between VABM 2116 and hill 1325, on the north flank of the southwest end of the dunite body. This occurrence is location 1 of Foley and others (1984). The location is accurate within 500 feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nulato A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Nulato SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Nulato(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Magmatic Segregation

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 15
USGS model code 8a
Deposit model name Podiform chromite (minor)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -156.76809, 64.17752
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Chromite occurrences in the Kaiyuh Hills were first documented in 1980 by C.C. Hawley and Associates, Inc., during their investigations for Armco Mineral Exploration, Ltd. The U.S. Bureau of Mines examined four of the occurrences in 1982, and published a report in 1984 (Foley and others, 1984). Twenty-one occurrences were located within a northeast-trending, approximately 6-mile-long body of dunite and pyroxene peridotite in the Kaiyuh Hills. The largest 4 occurrences are described in this record and in records NL004, NL005, and NL006. These four occurrences are estimated to contain a combined total of between 17,000 and 37,000 tons of chromic oxide (Foley and others, 1984).? the Kaiyuh Hills are underlain by a portion of the Rampart ophiolite belt that is offset along the Kaltag fault from the remainder of the belt. The belt comprises two tectonic units: an upper unit of ultramafic and gabbroic rocks and a lower unit of mafic volcanic rocks, diabase, and chert (Patton and others, 1977). Ultramafic rocks of the upper unit, which contain the chromite occurrences, are exposed along a 24-mile-long, northeast-striking belt in the Kaiyuh Hills (Foley and others, 1984). At the southwestern end of the belt is a 6-square-mile area underlain mostly by a body of dunite. This dunite contains more than 90% olivine, sparsely disseminated chromite, and locally banded segregations of disseminated to massive chromite. Nodular chromite was observed at one location. At the northeastern end of this body, the dunite grades into pyroxene peridotite interlayered with dunite. This part of the body also contains chromite bands ranging in thickness from less than 1 inch to 3 feet. The dunite layers range from a few inches to several hundred feet thick. The pyroxene peridotite is mostly harzburgite. Minor amounts of wehrlite and lherzoliteare also present (Foley and others, 1984).? This site is labeled occurrence 1 by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (Foley and others, 1984). The describe it as a 5-by-750-foot area of float containing 3%- 5% banded and massive chromite, and estimate that it contains between 1,000 and 4,000 tons of chromic oxide. Three samples of float contained 10%-13.3% chromite.
  • Age = Jurassic, the age of the ultramafic hostrocks (Patton and others, 1977).
  • Age = Host rock is Jurassic.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kaiyuh

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = This occurrence is estimated to contain between 1,000 and 4,000 tons of chromic oxide. It and three others nearby (NL004-006) contain a combined resource of 17,000 to 37,000 tons of chromic oxide.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Chromite occurrences in the Kaiyuh Hills were first documented in 1980 by C.C. Hawley and Associates, Inc., during their investigations for Armco Mineral Exploration, Ltd. The Bureau of Mines examined four of the occurrences in 1982 and published a report in 1984 (Foley and others, 1984).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Patton, W.W. Jr., Tailleur, I.L., Brosge, W.P., and Lanphere, M.A., 1977, Preliminary report on the ophiolites of northern and western Alaska: Oregon Department of Geologic and Mineral Industry Bulletin 95, p. 51-57.

  • Deposit

    Foley, J.Y., Hinderman, T., Hawley, C.C., Kirby, D.E., and Mardock, C.L., 1984, Chromite occurrences in the Kaiyuh Hills, west-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 178-84, 20 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Foley and others, 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Podiform chromite (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 8a)
Deposit Other Comments = There are a total of 21 chromite occurrences known along a 6-mile-long, northeast-trending exposure of ultramafic rocks in the Kaiyuh Hills. This occurrence is one of the four largest such occurrences. The other three are described in NL004-006. Foley and others (1984) list the locations of the other 17 occurrences.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-AUG-01 Cameron, C.E. Northern Associates Inc.

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