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Safari Creek North

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003153
MRDS ID A015686
Record type Site
Current site name Safari Creek North
Related records 10184776

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -157.63368, 68.42956 (WGS84)
Relative position Location plotted is locality shown in Cobb and others (1981, p. A15), in T12S, R25W; on a small tributary about 1 mi (1.6 km) upstream (east) of its confluence with Safari Creek and 2 mi (3.2 km) south-southeast of hill 2964; located to within 1 mi (1.6 km).??

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

North Slope(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Howard Pass B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Howard Pass SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Howard Pass C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colville River(hydrologic unit)

Colville River(hydrologic accounting unit)

Arctic Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska(National Petroleum Reserve)

National Petroleum Reserve BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -157.63368, 68.42956
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Barite occurs as sparse but rich concentrations of nodules weathered out of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Siksikpuk Formation in area of orange and red, iron-stained soil (Cobb and others, 1981, p. A15).
  • Age = Pennsylvanian-Permian

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Colville

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Jansons, Uldis, and Baggs, D.W., 1980, Mineral investigations of the Misheguk Mountains and Howard Pass quadrangles, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 38-80, 76 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., Mayfield, C.F., and Brosge, W.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in eleven quadrangles in northern Alaska (Arctic, Baird Mountains, Chandler Lake, DeLong Mountains, Demarcation Point, Howard Pass, Misheguk Mountain, Mount Michelson, Noatak, Point Lay, and Table Mountain); Supplement to Open-File Report 75-628; Part A, Summaries of data to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-767-A, 25 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Cobb and others (1981)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Lode; disseminated and nodular barite
Deposit Other Comments = Also, see MAS/MILS Sequence # 0020200021 for site with name 'Safari Creek', but which is located 10 mi (16 km) north of this locality (USBM , 1995)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-NOV-1992 M.T. Powers U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 02-NOV-1992 D.F. Huber U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 02-NOV-1992 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey

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