The Kolotuk Creek is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Kolotuk Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kolotuk Creek
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Alaska
District: Canning
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: Host Rock
Age Young: Early Cambrian
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Early Devonian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Azurite
Ore: Malachite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Brosge' and Reiser, 1976
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = None
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Possibly Cu skarn
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Azurite and malachite stains on limestone in thermally altered zone at contact of granite with host rock. Brosge observed no sulfides (personal observation, 1976) at site. Heavy minerals separated from a panned- concentrated sample of stream sediments at 69.2830 N, 144.4170 W contained yttocerite(?), fluorite, and 0.030 eU.
Comment (Geology): Age = Possibly Early Devonian
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., Mayfield, C.F., and Brosge, W.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in eleven quadrangles in northern Alaska (Arctic, Baird Mountains, Chandler Lake, DeLong Mountains, Demarcation Point, Howard Pass, Misheguk Mountain, Mount Michelson, Noatak, Point Lay, and Table Mountain); Supplement to Open-File Report 75-628; Part A, Summaries of data to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-767-A, 25 p.
Reference (Deposit): White, M.G., 1952, Radioactivity of selected rocks and placer concentrates from northeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 195, 12 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., Mayfield, C.F., and Brosg?, W.P., 1981, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in eleven quadrangles in northern Alaska (Arctic, Baird Mountains, Chandler Lake, DeLong Mountains, Demarcation Point, Howard Pass, Misheguk Mountain, Mount Michelson, Noatak, Point Lay, and Table Mountain); Supplement to Open-File Report 75-628; Part A, Summaries of data to January 1, 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-767-A, 25 p.
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