Deposit ID | 10000280 |
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MRDS ID | A010324 |
Record type | Site |
Current site name | Unnamed (near mouth of Port Camden) |
Geographic coordinates: | -133.9508, 56.80584 (WGS84) |
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Relative position | Northeastern Kuiu Island. Consists of outcrops of Tertiary sandstone along the shoreline at the end of the peninsula that juts out between the mouth of Kadake Bay and the north end of Port Camden. Commonly referred to as the Port Camden occurrences. Coordinates are approximately the center of the radioactive occurrences. Localities 7 and 8 of Grybeck, Berg, and Karl (1984). |
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Country | State |
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United States | Alaska |
Commodity | Importance |
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Thorium | Primary |
Uranium | Primary |
Model code | 204 |
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USGS model code | 30c |
BC deposit profile | D05 |
Deposit model name | Sandstone U |
Host or associated | Host | ||
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(1) | -133.9508, 56.80584 |
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Development status | Prospect |
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Commodity type | Metallic |
District name | Kupreanof |
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Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
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USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A010324 | |
USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | PE001 |
Eakins, G.R., 1975, Uranium investigations in southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 44, 62 p.
Dickinson, K.A., 1979, A uranium occurrence in the Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation on Kuiu Island, southeast Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1427, 5 p.
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Dickinson, K.A., and Campbell, J.A., 1982, The potential for uranium deposits in the Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation of the southern part of the Admiralty trough, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-983, 18 p.
Grybeck, D.J., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Dickinson, K.A., and Pierson, C.T., 1988, A statistical analysis of chemical and mineralogic data from the Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation in southeastern Alaska, with emphasis on uranium and thorium: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1851, 19 p.
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | Model Name = Sandstone uranium (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 30c) |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 01-NOV-1998 | H.C. Berg | U.S. Geological Survey | |
Reporter | 01-NOV-1998 | D.J. Grybeck | U.S. Geological Survey |