Upper South Currant Creek

The Upper South Currant Creek is a copper mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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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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