The Unnamed (near head of Hope Creek) is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (near head of Hope Creek) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (near head of Hope Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Molybdenum
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: REE
Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Tungsten
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Circle
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Allanite
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Marcasite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Rutile
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Holm, 1973.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface samples taken.
Comment (Geology): Age = The principal occurrence is a fluorite vein in a fine-grained quartz- and opal-bearing breccia zone in a contact phase of biotite granite. The biotite in the granite has been dated at 59.5 +/- 1.8 m.a. by the K/Ar method (Holm, 1973).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The occurrence is a 15-cm-wide fluorite vein in a fine-grained quartz- and opal-bearing breccia zone in a contact phase of biotite granite. Minor sulfide mineralization occurs in carbonate-bearing metamorphic rocks at the head of Hope Creek. Sulfides present are pyrrhotite, marcasite, and sphalerite with blebs of chalcopyrite, pyrite and arsenopyrite. None of these minerals occurs in quantities of economic significance. Samples of granite taken near the head of Hope Creek contained trace to small amounts of allanite (?), fluorite, galena, malachite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, rutile, scheelite and stibnite (Holm, 1973). Biotite from this granite has been dated at 59.5 +/- 1.8 m.a. by the K/Ar method (Holm, 1973).
References
Reference (Deposit): Nelson, A.E., West, W.S., and Matsko, J.J., 1954, Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in eastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 348, 21 p.
Reference (Deposit): Holm, Bjarne, 1973, Bedrock geology and mineralization of the Mount Prindle area, Yukon-Tanana upland: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 55 p.
Reference (Deposit): Foster, H.L., Laird J., Keith T.E.C., Cushing, G.W., and Menzie, W.D., 1983, Preliminary geologic map of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-A, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Menzie, W.D., Foster, H.L., Tripp, R.B., and Yeend, W.E., 1983, Mineral resource assessment of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-B, 61 p., 1 sheet, 1:250,000.
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