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Unnamed (near Swift River)

Occurrence, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Other commodities REE
Ore minerals allanite; monazite; xenotime

Geographic location

Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale LH
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale B-3
Latitude 61.4552
Longitude -154.1089
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Location and accuracy This occurrence is at the head of an unnamed southeast tributary to the Swift River. It is at an elevation of about 3,350 feet, 1.7 miles northwest of peak 7646. The map site is in the NW1/4 section 27, T 16 N, R 27 W, of the Seward Meridian. This is locality 2 of Cobb (1972 [MF 412]; 1976 [OF 76-485]). The location is probably accurate to within a quarter of a mile.

Geologic setting

Geologic description

Reed and Anderson (1969) reported that biotite granite of the Tired Pup pluton contains abundant accessory allanite and monazite and/or xenotime. The Tired Pup pluton is a Lower Tertiary pluton of the Alaska-Aleution Range batholith (Reed and Lanphere, 1973).
Geologic map unit (-154.111177413948, 61.4545343047158)
Mineral deposit model Disseminated accessory minerals in granite
Age of mineralization Early Tertiary. Several K-Ar ages from the Tired Pup pluton are about 55 to 60 Ma in age (Reed and Lanphere, 1973).

Production and reserves

Workings or exploration Reconnaissance sampling has been completed in this area.
Indication of production None

References

MRDS Number 10307754

References

Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Lime Hills quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-412, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Iliamna, Lake Clark, Lime Hills, and McGrath quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-485, 101 p.
Cobb, E.H., and Reed, B.L., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Iliamna, Lake Clark, Lime Hills, and McGrath quadrangles, Alaska; Supplement to Open-File Report 76-485; Part A, Summaries to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-1343-A, 25 p.
Reed, B.L., and Anderson, L.A., 1969, Aeromagnetic maps of part of the southern Alaska Range: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 69-214, 6 p.
Reed, B.L., and Lanphere, M.A., 1973, Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith--Geochronology, chemistry, and relation to circum-Pacific plutonism: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, no. 8, p. 2583-2610.
Reporters Travis L. Hudson and Madelyn A. Millholland
Last report date 6/10/2001