The Carl Creek is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Carl Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Carl Creek
Secondary: Cccu 1-101
Secondary: Unnamed (north side of Carl Creek)
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Alaska
District: Chisana
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Donald Dippel
Home Office: Alaska
Info Year: 1983
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Porphyry Cu
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sericite
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Orthoclase
Unknown: Bornite
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Molybdenite
Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz veinlets and in disseminations in 111 m.y.-old biotite-hornblende granodiorite and biotite-quartz monzonite that intrude volcanic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Chisana Formation.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Average grade from surface sampling: 0.10% Cu, all samples below 1.5% Cu, and less than 0.01% Mo (Richter and others, 1975, USGS MF-655-K, loc. 45 and 46).
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Geology): Age = Cretaceous
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = One of 8 porphyry copper deposits which together make up the known principal mineral resource potential of the Nabesna quadrangle; see also Horsfeld (NB099), Bond Creek (NB051), Orange Hill NB043), and Baultoff (NB100) deposits.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Stockwork, porphyry
References
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., 1970, Geochemical data from the Nabesna A-2 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 70-275, 12 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): AK Mine License - 1983
Reference (Reserve-Resource): Engineering & Mining Journal 7905
Pages: 83
Reference (Deposit): MTA 82 No. E-54
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., and Conwell, C.N., 1983, Alaska mineral resources 1981-82: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Annual Report 1981-2, 153 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.
Reference (Deposit): Engineering & Mining Journal 7905, No. 144
Pages: 83
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Richter, D.H., 1980, Summaries of data on and list of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-927, 117 p.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., Lanphere, M.A., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1975, Granite plutonism and metamorphism, eeastern Alaska Range, Alaska: Geological Society of American Bulletin, v. 86, p. 819-820.
Reference (Ownership): Alaska Kardex 078-101
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1970, Geochemical data from the Nabesna A-2 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 70-275, 12 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Hollister, V.F., Anzalone, S.A., and Richter, D.H., 1975, Porphyry copper belts of southern Alaska and contiguous Yukon Territory: CIM (Canadian Mining and Metallurgical) Bulletin, v. 68, no. 756, p. 104-112.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., Singer, D.A., and Cox, D.P., 1975, Mineral resources map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-655-K, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., and Jones, D.L., 1973, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Nabesna A-2 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-749, scale 1:63,360.
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