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Tungsten Hill

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308834
MRDS ID A015295
Record type Site
Current site name Tungsten Hill
Alternate or previous names Grand Duke Nikolas, Tungsten No. 1, General Joffre
Related records 10002823

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -147.53595, 64.94867 (WGS84)
Relative position The Tungsten Hill propsect is located in the NW1/4 sec. 3, T. 1 N., R. 1 E., Fairbanks Meridian. This prospect is on the southwest side of Tungsten Gulch, a tributary of First Chance Creek. It is about 0.2 mile north of the top of Mount Lulu Fairbanks and about 2.5 miles east of the town of Fox. The prospect is included in locality 27 of Cobb (1972 [MF 410]).
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Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Nearby scientific data

(1) -147.53595, 64.94867
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Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = By 1916, four zones as much as 14 feet wide that contained scheelite had been discovered on the western periphery of a large granite body (Mertie, 1917, p. 422-424). Scheelite occurs in tactite, silicified limestone, granite and pegmatitic dikes, and in small quartz veins in schist (Berg and Cobb, 1967). Samples of high-grade ore on the dump assayed 8percent tungsten trioxide (WO3) (Joesting, 1943 [ATDM Pamph. 2]). This prospect is near the contact of a Cretaceous porphyritic granite and Fairbanks Schist that consists of quartz-muscovite schist, quartzite, and chloritic-quartz schist (Newberry and others, 1996).

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Fairbanks

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = No record of production.

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = By 1916, several zones that contained scheelite were located. On the Grand Duke Nikolas claim, a scheelite lode in schist was exposed in an open cut. On the Tungsten No. 1 claim, another open cut had been made in schist and quartzite schist that included a zone with scheelite. The width of the mineralized zone was not apparent. On the General Joffre claim, a lode 14 feet wide with scheelite has been exposed. This deposit as a whole was considered low-grade ore (Mertie, 1917, p. 422-424). In 1943, Joesting (1943 [ATDM Pamph. 2]) reported that little work had been done since 1918.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency Database name Acronym Record ID Notes
USGS Alaska Resource Data File ARDF FB097
USGS Mineral Resources Data System MRDS A015295
USGS Mineral Resources Data System MRDS D002651

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mertie, J.B. Jr., 1917, Lode mining in the Fairbanks District, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662-H, p. 403-424.

  • Deposit

    Chapin, Theodore, 1919, Mining in the Fairbanks district: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 692-F, p. 321-327.

  • Deposit

    Joesting, H.R., 1943, Strategic mineral occurrences in interior Alaska, supplement to pamphlet no. 1: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Pamphlet 2, 26 p.

  • Deposit

    Thorne, R.L., Muir, N.M., Erickson, A.W., Thomas, B. I., Hedie, H. E., and Wright, W. S., 1948, Tungsten deposits of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4174, 22 p.

  • Deposit

    Byers, F.M., Jr., 1957, Tungsten deposits in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1024-I, p. 179-216.

  • Deposit

    Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.

  • Deposit

    Chapman, R.M., and Foster, R.L., 1969, Lode mines and prospects in the Fairbanks district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 625-D, 25 p., 1 plate.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-410, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Mulligan, J.J., 1974, Mineral resources of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline corridor: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8626, 24 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1976, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Fairbanks quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-662, 174 p.

  • Deposit

    Cobb, E.H., 1975, Mineral resources of Alaska, in Yount, M.E., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Program, 1975: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 722, p. 37.

  • Deposit

    Thorne, R.L., Muir, N.M., Erickson, A.W., Thomas, B. I., Hedie, H. E., and Wright, W. S., 1948, Tungsten deposits of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 4174, 51 p.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Mertie, 1917

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = W skarn deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 14a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-JUL-2001 J.R. Guidetti Schaefer and C.J. Freeman Avalon Development Corporation