Kangik River

The Kangik River is a copper mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Kangik River

Commodity

Primary: Copper

Location

State: Alaska
District: Bering Sea

Land Status

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Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
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Physiography

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Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The Cretaceous volcanic assemblage is thermally metamorphosed to hornblende hornfels and albite-epidote hornfels facies where it is in contact with granitic rocks but elsewhere it is commonly propylitically altered (Patton and Csejtey, 1980).

Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = None

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Patton and Csejtey, 1971 (PP 684-C)

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = A small amount of native copper was found in float of a mafic volcanic hornfels 4 1/2 miles northeast of Vngyat Point (Patton and Cjestey, 1971, p. C15).??The hornfels is apparently in the east contact zone of the Sevuokuk pluton. The Sevuokuk pluton is an elongate and composite intrusion that makes up the western coastal headlands of St. Lawrence Island (Patton and Csejtey, 1980). It includes biotite hornblende quartz monzonite and biotite quartz monzonite phases (Csejtey, Patton, and Miller, 1971). The copper-bearing hornfels occurrence is apparently in the contact zone of a biotite hornblende quartz monzonite phase where it intrudes a Cretaceous volcanic assemblage of diverse lithologies and compositions. One K/Ar age determination for the Sevuokuk pluton gave an age of 108 +/- 3.2 Ma (Patton and Csejtey, 1980).

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Native copper

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Copper-bearing replacements in hornfels.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Mid-Cretaceous, the age of the Sevuokuk pluton (108 +/- 3.2 Ma; Patton and Csejtey, 1980)

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): 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.

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): Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1971, Preliminary geologic investigations of western St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 684-C, p. C1-C15.

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.

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