Unnamed (tributary to Clear Creek), Unnamed (tributary to Clear Creek) Sample Loc 2993

Showing with commodities rare earth elements, uranium

More information at and near this site: REE-AK00183

About this location

Feature ID REE-Mo00606
Geographic coordinates -162.326624, 64.898294
Point definition Concentrates from stream and beach gravels
Reference West (1953); Sample locality 2993
Date: 1953; Scale: Small (<1:250,000)

Geologic information

Commodities rare earth elements; uranium
Valuable materials allanite; uraniferous titanium niobate mineral
Associated materials hematite; ilmenite; magnetite; sphene
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 2993

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