Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale | MH |
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Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale | A-4 |
Latitude | 63.0167 |
Longitude | -145.5507 |
Nearby scientific data | Find additional scientific data near this location |
Location and accuracy | This occurrence is at an elevation of 3,700 feet approximately 1 mile east of the top of Paxson Mountain and about 1.3 miles south-southwest of Mud Lake. It is in the SE1/4SW1/4 section 12, T. 22 S., R. 11 E., Fairbanks Meridian. The occurrence corresponds to locality 5 in Rose and Saunders (1965) and locality S96 in table 2 of Nokleberg and others (1991). |
Geologic descriptionThis occurrence consists of a zone about 30 feet wide of quartz-epidote veinlets and vuggy pods as much as 1 foot long and 6 inches wide that contain pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bornite (Rose and Saunders, 1965). The mineralized zone is limonite stained and extends along the wall of a gorge for 250 feet. The zone appears to dip north 20 degrees and is copper stained on its southern end. The host rock is metabasalt of Nikolai Greenstone of Late Triassic age that locally is highly fractured and altered to chlorite and epidote (Rose and Saunders, 1965). | |
Geologic map unit | (-145.552919431983, 63.0162788401053) |
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Mineral deposit model | Basaltic Cu (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 23). |
Mineral deposit model number | 23 |
Age of mineralization | Probably Cretaceous. |
Alteration of deposit | The metabasalt host rock is highly fractured and altered to chlorite and some epidote. |
Indication of production | None |
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MRDS Number | A011812 |
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References | |
Reporters | W.T. Ellis (Alaska Earth Science), C.C. Hawley (Hawley Resource Group), and W.J. Nokleberg (USGS) |
Last report date | 6/19/2002 |