Deposit ID | 10001672 |
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MRDS ID | A012450 |
Record type | Site |
Current site name | Windy Bay |
Geographic coordinates: | -158.78134, 56.14234 (WGS84) |
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Relative position | This site is approximately 2 miles west of the head of the north arm of Windy Bay and includes the headwaters of streams draining into that head of the bay (Cox and others, 1981, locality 9). The site is accurate as plotted. |
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Country | State |
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United States | Alaska |
Commodity | Importance |
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Copper | Primary |
Molybdenum | Primary |
Gold | Secondary |
Lead | Secondary |
Zinc | Secondary |
Materials | Type of material |
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Chalcopyrite | Ore |
Galena | Ore |
Gold | Ore |
Molybdenite | Ore |
Pyrite | Ore |
Pyrrhotite | Ore |
Sphalerite | Ore |
Chlorite | Gangue |
Quartz | Gangue |
Model code | 53 |
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USGS model code | 17 |
Deposit model name | Porphyry Cu |
Mark3 model number | 4 |
Model code | 78 |
USGS model code | 20c |
Deposit model name | Porphyry Cu-Au |
Mark3 model number | 34 |
Model code | 79 |
USGS model code | 21a |
Deposit model name | Porphyry Cu-Mo |
Mark3 model number | 2 |
Host or associated | Associated |
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Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale |
Rock unit name | Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation |
Rock description | Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation |
Host or associated | Host |
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Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone |
Rock unit name | Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation; |
Rock description | Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation;Naknek Formation; |
(1) | -158.78134, 56.14234 |
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Development status | Occurrence |
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Commodity type | Metallic |
District name | Alaska Peninsula |
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Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
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USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A012450 | |
USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | CG012 |
Fields, E.D., 1977, 1976 Annual report: Alaska search, Chignik area-Bristol Bay region: Bear Creek Mining Company, 44 p., 22 map sheets. (Report held by the Aleut Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.)
Anderson, G.D., Fitch, G.M., Lappie, D.W., Lindberg, P.A., and Fankhauser, R.E., 1979, Exploration and evaluation of Bristol Bay Native Corporation Lands, Vol. II, Book 1: prepared for Houston Oil and Minerals Company by Resource Associates of Alaska, 78 p. (Report held by Alaska Earth Science, Anchorage, Alaska.)
Cox, D.P., Detra, D.E., and Detterman, R.L., 1981, Mineral resource maps of the Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF- 1053-K, 2 map sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | Model Name = Porphyry copper; porphyry copper-gold; porphyry copper-molybdenum (Cox and Singer, 1986; models 17, 20c, 21a) |
Deposit | Model Number = 17, 20c, 21a |
Deposit | Other Comments = This site is partially on land selected by the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. The remainder is within the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 08-FEB-2000 | S.H. Pilcher | U.S. Geological Survey |