The Nanielik Creek is a barium-barite mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Nanielik Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Nanielik Creek
Commodity
Primary: Barium-Barite
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: Noatak
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: Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Barite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Located within Noatak National Preserve.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Three foot (1 m) thick vein of barite in limestone. Vein and nearby Fe-rich soil contained 1000 ppm Pb and 5000 ppm Zn (Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978). Occurrence could be similar to several other sediment-hosted occurrences in the Brooks Range that formed from the dewatering of a large Paleozoic? sedimentary basin (Schmidt, 1997, p. 35-65; Schmidt and Werdon, 1993, p. 143).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mayfield and Grybeck, 1978
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn?
Comment (Geology): Age = Paleozoic
References
Reference (Deposit): Schmidt, J.M., and Werdon, M.B., 1993, Clastic-hosted stratiform, vein/breccia and disseminated Zn-Pb-Ag deposits of the northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska; are they different expersions of dewatering of the same source basin? [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. 143.
Reference (Deposit): Mayfield, C.F. and Grybeck, D., 1978, Mineral occurrences and resource map of the Ambler river quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-120I, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Schmidt, J.M., 1997, Shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska, 1997: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 35-65.
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