The Kaluich Creek is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Kaluich Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kaluich Creek
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Molybdenum
Secondary: Barium-Barite
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Vanadium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Noatak
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Shale-hosted? (Schmidt and Werdon, 1993, p. 143)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Located within the Noatak National Preserve.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Small malachite-stained quartz vein in iron-rich black phyllite which is geochemically anomalous in Ag, Ba, Mo and V in a zone extending 2.5 km along strike (Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978). This type of copper mineralization in black metapelite containing anomalous Ag-Ba-Mo-V may be related to dewatering of a large Paleozoic? clastic basin (Schmidt and Werdon, 1993), and occurs throughout this part of the Brooks Range ( Kurtak and others, 1995; Schmidt, 1997, p. 35-65).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): Kurtak, J.M., Hicks, R.W., Werdon, M.B., Meyer, M.P., and Mull, C.G., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Colville mining district and southern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 8-95, 217 p.
Reference (Deposit): Mayfield, C.F. and Grybeck, D., 1978, Mineral occurrences and resource map of the Ambler river quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-120I, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Schmidt, J.M., 1997, Shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska, 1997: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 35-65.
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