The Upper South Currant Creek is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Upper South Currant Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Upper South Currant Creek
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Alaska
District: Bristol Bay
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: Porphyry Cu
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Unknown
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Unknown
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = No reserves
Comment (Production): Production Notes = No production
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Nelson and others, 1985
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = No detailed description of the mineralization was found in the literature. Weak mineralization (Resource Associates of Alaska, 1976) associated with the contact between Cretaceous granodiorite and Tertiary granites (Nelson and others, 1983; units Ki9 and Ti12). Unit Ki9 as a medium-grained granodiorite with compositional ranges from silicic granodiorite to mafic tonalite and quartz diorite. Rocks near the margin of the pluton contain lesser quartz and fall within the quartz diorite field. Unit Ti12 is described as coarse-grained biotite granite (North of Currant Creek) and medium- to coarse-grained granodiorite (South of Currant Creek).
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Site is in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Porphyry Cu ? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 17 ?)
Comment (Geology): Age = Tertiary or younger.
References
Reference (Deposit): Nelson, W.H., Carlson, C., and Case, J.E., 1983, Geologic map of the Lake Clark quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1114-A, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., 1976, Geology and geochemistry of certain land within the Lake Clark National Park: Contract report for U.S. Bureau of Mines, 109 p.
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous mineral deposits in the western part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-F, 38 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
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