| Deposit ID | 10307756 |
|---|---|
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Three Cub |
| Geographic coordinates: | -153.63698, 61.76537 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | This occurrence is on the north side of a hanging-glacier moraine in the headwaters of an unnamed south tributary to uppermost Fish Creek. It is at an elevation of about 4,800 feet, 0.9 mile north of peak 6590. The map site is in the NE1/4 section 4, T 19 N, R 24 W, of the Seward Meridian. .This occurrence is sample locations 823 and 824 of Allen and others (1990), Allen and Slaughter (1990), and Allen (1991). |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Bethel(Census area)
Alaska(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Lime Hills D-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)
Lime Hills NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Lime Hills(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Upper Kuskokwim River(hydrologic accounting unit)
Southwest(hydrologic subregion)
Alaska(hydrologic region)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| United States | Alaska |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Silver | Primary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Copper | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Antimony Critical | Primary |
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Arsenopyrite | Ore |
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Stibnite | Ore |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Model code | 85 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 22c |
| Deposit model name | Polymetallic veins |
| Mark3 model number | 46 |
| (1) | -153.63698, 61.76537 |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|
| District name | McGrath |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | LH009 |
Nokleberg, W.J., and others, 1994, Metallogeny and major mineral deposits of Alaska and Metallogenic map of significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska, in Plafker, G. and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America: The Geology of North America, v. G1, p. 855-904 and v. G1, Plate 11, scale 1:2,500,000.
Allen, M.S, 1990, Gold anomalies and newly identified gold occurrences in the Lime Hills quadrangle, Alaska , and their association with the Hartman sequence plutons, in Goldfarb, R. J., Nash, J. T., and Stoeser, J. W., eds., Geochemical studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1989: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1950, p. F1-F16.
Allen, M. S., Malcolm, M. J., Motooka, J. M., and Slaughter, K. E., 1990, Geologic description, chemical analyses, and sample locality map for rock samples collected from the eastern part of the Lime Hills quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-69, 49 p..
Allen, M.S., and Slaughter, K. E., 1990, Mineralogical data and sample locality map of nonmagnetic, heavy-mineral-concentrate samples collected from the eastern part of the Lime Hills quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-67, 64 p., 1 plate, scale 1:250,000.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Model Name = Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986, model 22c) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 10-JUN-01 | Travis L. Hudson | Applied Geology | |
| Reporter | 10-JUN-01 | Madelyn A. Millholland | Millholland & Associates |
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