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Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  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 10308599
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.44305, 63.08892 (WGS84)
Relative position This occurrence is at an elevation of about 3,800 feet, one mile due east of the center of the airstrip at Susitna Lodge. The map site is in the SW1/4 of sec. 18, T. 21 S., R. 2 E., of the Fairbanks Meridian. The location is accurate to about 250 feet.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Matanuska-Susitna(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

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

Mount Hayes SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Healy(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Susitna River(hydrologic unit)

Susitna River(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Central Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gangue = iron carbonate

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Azurite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • Propylitic alteration of greenstone.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.44305, 63.08892
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The area of this occurrence is underlain by the Middle or Upper Triassic Nikolai Greenstone, a thick sequence of subaerial and submarine basalt flows and minor interbedded volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, aquagene and epiclastic tuff, breccia, argillite, and radiolarian chert (Nokleberg and others, 1992). The deposit is in a hydrothermally altered shear zone in greenstone and consists quartz, epidote, bornite, chalcocite, and an iron carbonate mineral. Weathering produces malachite- and azurite-coated float and encrustations. Glavinovich (1967) described the occurrence as follows: 'Bornite, minor chalcocite and malachite occur as small discontinuous stringers in a narrow fracture zone. The fracture zone trends northeast, is about two inches wide and three feet in length. At both ends the zone narrows to a single fracture that continues along strike but is unmineralized. Gangue minerals include quartz and epidote. The paragenesis as determined in hand specimen is epidote, quartz, sulfides. The country rock is moderately altered andesite and is well jointed. Malachite coatings on joint faces are common.'
  • Age = Triassic or younger.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Valdez Creek

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Glavinovich, 1967

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Hydrothermally altered shear zone

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-APR-2000 D.L. Stevens Stevens Exploration Management Corporation

Beyond USGS

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

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