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Kaluich Creek

Occurrence, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities Cu
Other commodities Ag; Ba; Mo; V
Ore minerals malachite
Gangue minerals quartz

Geographic location

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Latitude 67.64
Longitude -158.37
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Location and accuracy Located near the headwaters of Kaluich Creek in T. 26 N., R. 2 E., Kateel River Meridian. Shown as locality 2 in Mayfield and Grybeck (1978) and is accurate to within 2000 ft. (600 m).

Geologic setting

Geologic description

Small malachite-stained quartz vein in iron-rich black phyllite which is geochemically anomalous in Ag, Ba, Mo and V in a zone extending 2.5 km along strike (Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978). This type of copper mineralization in black metapelite containing anomalous Ag-Ba-Mo-V may be related to dewatering of a large Paleozoic (?) clastic basin (Schmidt and Werdon, 1993), and occurs throughout this part of the Brooks Range (Kurtak and others, 1995; Schmidt, 1997, p. 35-65).
Geologic map unit (-158.372861220289, 67.6394390891733)
Mineral deposit model Shale-hosted (Schmidt and Werdon, 1993, p. 143)?

Production and reserves

Indication of production None

Additional comments

Located within the Noatak National Preserve.

References

MRDS Number A011851

References

Kurtak, J.M., Meyer, M.P., Hicks, R.W., Werdon, M.B., and Mull, C.G., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Colville Mining District and southern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 8-95, 217 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reporters K.R. Leonard (USGS), R.L. Elliott (USGS), J.M. Schmidt (USGS), S.W. Nelson (USGS retired)
Last report date 5/7/1997