The Mt. Bupto is a phosphorus-phosphates mine located in Alaska.
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Mt. Bupto MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mt. Bupto
Commodity
Primary: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Secondary: Uranium
Location
State: Alaska
District: Colville
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: Phosphate, upwelling type
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Mudstone sample contained 13.7% P2O5 and .004% U (Patton and Matzko, 1959, p. 11).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Phosphatic mudstone in dark-colored, dominantly calcareous rocks of the Carboniferous Lisburne Group, probably from a stratigraphic level correlative with the black chert and shale member of the Alapah Limestone. Nearby dolostone talus derived from Mt. Bupto has purple and green fluorite and coarsely crystalline calcite fracture coatings.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Patton and Matzko (1959)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = See MAS/MILS Sequence #0020200005 (USBM, 1995)
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = unknown Uranium-bearing mineral
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Lode; phosphorite
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Phosphorite
Comment (Geology): Age = Carboniferous
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): Tailleur, I.L., Pessel, G.H., Brosge', W.P., and Mayfield, C.F., 1976, Informal cooperation between U.S. Geological Survey and State of Alaska, Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, in the Brooks Range, in Cobb, E.H., ed., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishments during 1975: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 733, p. 29
Reference (Deposit): Patton, W.W., Jr., and Matzko, J.J., 1959, Phosphate deposits in northern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 302-A, p. 1-17.
Reference (Deposit): Jansons, Uldis, and Baggs, D.W., 1980, Mineral investigations of the Misheguk Mountains and Howard Pass quadrangles, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 38-80, 76 p.
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