The Unnamed (near mouth of Port Camden) is a uranium and thorium mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (near mouth of Port Camden) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (near mouth of Port Camden)
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: Thorium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Kupreanof
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sandstone U
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Unknown.
Rocks
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Host rock is Tertiary.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Unidentified radioactive minerals
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Sandstone uranium (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 30c)
Comment (Exploration): Status = Probably inactive
Comment (Production): Production Notes = None
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Unidentified radioactive minerals
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = None
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Dickinson, 1979 (USGS OF 79-1427); Dickinson and Campbell, 1982
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Block of 30 claims staked in 1976 and active until at least 1981 (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980). Little indication of any work since.
Comment (Geology): Age = Tertiary or younger based on age of the host rock, the Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation consists of light brown, poorly sorted, non-marine, dolomitic sandstone that contains clay clasts, carbonized wood fragments, and dolomitic concretions. The sandstone ranges from silty, fine-grained and thin-bedded to medium- and coarse-grained; it is partly conglomeratic, and medium- to thick-bedded. Siderite, magnetite, pyrite, and apatite are present in some lithologies. All carbonized wood fragments show radioactivity when tested in place. Readings range from 2 to 50 times background. One sample yields eU of 1300, plus-or-minus 400 ppm uranium, and gamma eU of 2300, plus-or-minus 700 ppm uranium. Samples from a four-inch-thick bed of fine-grained Tertiary sandstone contained 11 and 12 ppm uranium and up to 30 percent magnetite. (Description summarized from Eakins, 1975; Dickinson, 1979; Dickinson and Campbell, 1982; and Dickinson and Pierson, 1988.)
References
Reference (Deposit): Eakins, G.R., 1975, Uranium investigations in southeastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 44, 62 p.
Reference (Deposit): 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.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): 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.
Reference (Deposit): 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.
Reference (Deposit): 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.
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