Deposit ID | 10000210 |
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MRDS ID | A010247 |
Record type | Site |
Current site name | Silver Bar |
Alternate or previous names | McVey |
Related records | 10161187 |
Geographic coordinates: | -130.14564, 56.06088 (WGS84) |
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Relative position | The Silver Bar occurrence is in Section 17 at an elevation of about 1950 feet. It is on a south-facing mountainside about 0.3 mile north of the West Fork of Texas Creek (Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 15, loc. 55). The location is accurate within about a quarter of a mile.? Also see Additional Comments field, below. |
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Country | State |
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United States | Alaska |
Commodity | Importance |
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Copper | Primary |
Lead | Primary |
Barium-Barite | Secondary |
Materials | Type of material |
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Barite | Ore |
Chalcopyrite | Ore |
Galena | Ore |
Pyrite | Ore |
Quartz | Gangue |
Model code | 85 |
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USGS model code | 22c |
Deposit model name | Polymetallic veins |
Mark3 model number | 46 |
Host or associated | Associated |
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Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite |
Rock unit name | Texas Creek |
Rock description | Texas Creek |
Host or associated | Host |
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Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite |
(1) | -130.14564, 56.06088 |
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Development status | Occurrence |
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Commodity type | Metallic |
District name | Hyder |
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Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
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USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A010247 | |
USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | BC055 |
Buddington, A.F., 1929, Geology of Hyder and vicinity, southeastern Alaska, with a reconnaissance of Chickamin River: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 807, 124 p.
Smith, J.G., 1977, Geology of the Ketchikan D-1 and Bradfield Canal A-1 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1425, 49 p.
Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-922, 98 p.
Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.
Koch, R.D., 1996, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-A, 35 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | Model Name = Polymetallic veins |
Deposit | Other Comments = Occurrence originally staked in 1923.? Some descriptions of this occurrence also include references to the McVey claims (Cobb, 1978, p. 70). |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 17-MAY-1998 | H. C. Berg | U.S. Geological Survey |