The Tiflighak Bay is a lead mine located in Alaska.
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Tiflighak Bay MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Tiflighak Bay
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bering Sea
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: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = None
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Cobb, 1980 (OFR 80-909)
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Galena in small quartz veins in Cretaceous quartz monzonite exposed near top of cliff (oral communication, Bela Csejtey, Jr. May 24, 1972; as cited by Cobb, 1972; 1980).??The Sevuokuk pluton in the vicinity of this site is biotite quartz monzonite (Csejtey, Patton and Miller, 1971) for which one K/Ar determination indicates an age of 108 +/- 3.2 Ma (Patton and Csejtey, 1980).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Vein in granitic rock. Deposit model 22c (?); polymetallic veins
Comment (Geology): Age = Not known; assumed to be mid -Cretaceous, the age of the associated granitic rocks.
References
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Saint Lawrence quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-465, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Csejtey, Bela, Jr., Patton, W.W., Jr., and Miller, T.P., 1971, Cretaceous plutonic rocks of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, a preliminary report: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 750-D, p. D68-D76.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.
Reference (Deposit): Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1980, Geologic map of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-1203, scale 1:250,000.
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