Geologic descriptionSeveral of the stream sediment samples from this drainage, collected over a length of 1 1/2 miles, contain anomalous metal contents including 0.5 to 1.5 ppm silver and 100 to 500 ppm lead. Barium contents of all the stream sediment samples here are 150 to 500 ppm and their zinc contents are less than 200 to 700 ppm (Patton and Csejtey, 1972). Exposed bedrock in this drainage is a small area of quartz monzonite and Mississippian limestone at its lower end. The cause of the elevated metal values is not apparent but these are the highest and most consistently anomalous silver and lead values in stream sediments from St. Lawrence Island. If these anomalous values reflect mineralization, this mineralization could be stratiform (associated with Mississippian to Triassic sedimentary rocks) or epigenetic (associated with mid-Cretaceous plutonism). |
Geologic map unit |
(-169.812663314195, 63.3691238400077) |
Mineral deposit model |
Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 31a?). |
Mineral deposit model number |
31a? |
Age of mineralization |
If the stream sediment metal concentrations here reflect mineralization, this mineralization could be stratiform and similar in age to that of the nearby sedimentary rocks (Mississippian to Triassic). Alternatively, the potential mineralization could be related to mid-Cretaceous quartz monzonite that intrudes Mississippian limestone at the lower end of this drainage (Patton and Csejtey, 1980). |