Unnamed

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Zinc

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10003341
MRDS ID	A106085
Record type	Site
Current site name	Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-141.33299, 67.11986 (WGS84)
Relative position	Location plotted is locality 13 of Barker and Clautice (1978, p. 14) and shown on Fig. 1 of Brosge and Reiser (1968), at junction of major tributary of Salmon Trout River, about 10 mi. upstream from its mouth; located to within 2 mi (3.2 km).

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yukon-Koyukuk(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coleen A-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Coleen SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Coleen(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country	State
United States	Alaska

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Silver	Primary
Zinc Critical	Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-141.33299, 67.11986	ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

Geologic Description = Area is underlain by folded and thrusted, dominantly carbonate, Paleozoic rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic

Comments on exploration

Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name	Sheenjek

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	A106085
USGS	Alaska Resource Data File	ARDF	CO028

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Brosgi, W.R., and Reiser, H.N., 1968, Geochemical maps of granitic rocks, Coleen and Table Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 323, scale 1:250,000.
Deposit

Barker, J.C., and Clautice, K.H., 1978, Mineral reconnaissance of the Porcupine River region: a summary report: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 87-78, 20 p.

Comments on the references

Primary Reference = Brosge and Reiser (1968)

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	Model Name = Lode?

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	12-SEP-1996	J.H. Dover	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

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