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Unnamed (on upper Sheep River)

Occurrence, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities Ag; Cu
Other commodities Au
Ore minerals malachite

Geographic location

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Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale A-5
Latitude 62.1224
Longitude -149.0883
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Location and accuracy This occurrence is at an elevation of about 2,950 feet on the west valley wall of upper Sheep River. The occurrence is in the southeast corner of sec. 33, T. 24 N., R. 2 E., Seward Meridian. The location is accurate to within 1/2 mile. This is locality 98 of Csejtey and Miller (1978) and Singer and others (1978).

Geologic setting

Geologic description

This occurrence consists of malachite-stained float of Cretaceous or Paleocene tonalite (Cobb and Csejtey, 1980). A float sample contains 10 parts per million silver, 0.35 part per million gold, and 5,000 parts per million copper (Miller and others, 1978).
Geologic map unit (-149.090508383242, 62.1218920501058)
Mineral deposit model Porphyry copper-gold (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 20c)
Mineral deposit model number 20c
Age of mineralization Cretaceous or younger; quartz veins(?) cut plutonic rocks of this age.
Alteration of deposit Oxidation of copper minerals.

Production and reserves

Workings or exploration Only limited surface sampling by U.S. Geological Survey (Miller and others, 1978).
Indication of production None

References

MRDS Number A012186

References

Cobb, E.H., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-716, 63 p.
Csejtey, Bela, Jr., and Miller, R.J., 1978, Map and table describing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-558-B, 22 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Csejtey, Bela, Jr., Nelson, W.H., Jones, D.L., Silberling, N.J., Dean, R.M., Morris, M.S., Lanphere, M.A., Smith, J.G., and Silberman, M.L, 1978, Reconnaissance geologic map and geochronology, Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, northern part of Anchorage quadrangle, and southwest part of Healy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-558-A, 60 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Miller, R.J., Cooley, E.F., O'Leary, R.M., Garmezy, Larry, Csejtey, Bela, Jr., Smith, T.E., and Cleveland, M.N., 1978, Analysis of geochemical samples from the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 78-1052, 279 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Singer, D.A., Csejtey, Bela, Jr., and Miller, R.J., 1978, Map and discussion of the metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral resources of the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 78-558-Q, 33 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reporters D. Bickerstaff (U.S. Geological Survey)
Last report date 10/1/2002