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Unnamed (near headwaters of Glacier Creek)

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307276
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (near headwaters of Glacier Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -162.18335, 65.55938 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is at an elevation of 1,260 feet on a small ridge between the headwater tributaries of Glacier Creek. Glacier Creek (BN078) is a northeast-flowing stream on the east side of Monument Mountain.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northwest Arctic(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bendeleben C-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bendeleben NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bendeleben(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Goodhope-Spafarief Bay(hydrologic unit)

Northern Seward Peninsula(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -162.18335, 65.55938
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = A stream sediment sample in upper Glacier Creek contained 164 ppm Pb, 367 ppm Zn, and 12 ppm As (Hudson and Wyman, 1983). Follow-up reconnaissance soil sampling in the headwaters of Glacier Creek identified this occurrence. The soil sample collected here contained 51 ppm Cu, 420 ppm Pb, 1,520 ppm Zn, 10 ppm Ag, and 62 ppm As. Monument Mountain is underlain by a polydeformed metapelitic schist that may be Precambrian in age but the bedrock of Glacier Creek is a metasedimentary sequence of Lower Paleozoic age (Till and others, 1986). The Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks locally include felsic metavolcanic rocks in areas peripheral to Kiwalik Mountain. Float of very fine-grained, siliceous, tan-weathering metasediment (tuff or exhalite ?) has been observed in the headwater gravels of Glacier Creek (T. L. Hudson, unpublished data, 1982).
  • Age = Not known

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Fairhaven

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = There are no workings on this occurrence.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Hudson, T.L., and Wyman, W. F., 1983, Interim report on areas of Seward Peninsula warranting further prospecting and evaluation: Anchorage, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report, 84 p., 7 plates. (Report held by Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.)

  • Deposit

    Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Hudson and Wyman, 1983

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Base metal occurrences around Kiwalik Mountain may be epigenetic veins or replacements, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, or skarns.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-99 Travis L. Hudson Applied Geology

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