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Sunshine Creek (CS), Bud Group

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111386
MRDS ID A011887
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine Creek (CS), Bud Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -156.63347, 67.21955 (WGS84)
Relative position Located on the ridge east of VABM Ruby west of the Shungnak River in T. 21 N., R. 10 E., Kateel River Meridian. Shown as locality 40 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 A-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

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

Ambler River(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Kobuk River(hydrologic unit)

Kobuk-Selawik Rivers(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 184
USGS model code 28a
Deposit model name Massive sulfide, kuroko
Mark3 model number 93

Nearby scientific data

(1) -156.63347, 67.21955
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Prospect hosted in Ambler sequence of metamorphosed Devonian and Mississippian volcanic, volcaniclastic, and sedimentary rocks. Ore minerals are concentrated in a felsic tuffaceous sedimentary section of rocks containing numerous basalt sills and flows immediataly above a basal carbonate section (Hitzmann and others, 1986, p. 1592-1618). Two mineralized horizons are identified having a strike length of about 5000 ft (1.6 km) (Nana Development Corp., written commun., 1997).???
  • Age = Devonian

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Shungnak

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Surface sampling and mapping and 10 drill holes.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Hitzman and others, 1982

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Kuroko
Deposit Other Comments = Bud Group claim (near VABM Ruby) may be located 2 km west of the location shown of the Sunshine Creek prospect shown here. This discrepancy may be due to changes in claim group names and locations during various years (unpublished information, Kennecott Exploration Co.)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-APR-1997 K.R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 29-APR-1997 R.L. Elliott U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 29-APR-1997 J.M. Schmidt U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 29-APR-1997 S.W. Nelson U.S. Geological Survey

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