Unnamed (tributary to Clear Creek), Unnamed (tributary to Clear Creek) Sample Loc 2974

Showing with commodities rare earth elements, uranium

More information at and near this site: REE-AK00183

About this location

Feature ID REE-Mo00605
Geographic coordinates -162.186622, 64.894296
Point definition Concentrates from stream and beach gravels
Reference West (1953); Sample locality 2974
Date: 1953; Scale: Small (<1:250,000)

Geologic information

Commodities rare earth elements; uranium
Valuable materials allanite; uraniferous titanium niobate mineral
Associated materials anatase; hematite; hornblende; biotite; sphene; ilmenite; magnetite; pyrite
Host rock age Cretaceous
Host unit name Darby pluton
Host lithologies granite
Reference West, W.S., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1948: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 300, 7 p.
Additional references Sample locality 2974

Deposit models and geoenvironmental models

Type Model Reference
Deposit model disseminated U-REE in pluton West, W.S., 1953, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1948: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 300, 7 p.
Geoenvironmental model unclassified

Geographic context based on the point coordinates