The Curve Creek Deposit is a beryllium mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Curve Creek Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Curve Creek Deposit
Commodity
Primary: Beryllium
Secondary: Uranium
Secondary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Antimony
Location
State: Alaska
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
Discovery Year: 1964
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Rapid River Thrust Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: HIGHEST RADIOACTIVITY: 0.0006% EU.
Analytical Data: MAX. BEO CONTENT: 0.15%
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Fluorite
Unknown: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Location): USGS BULLETIN 1287, PLATE 1; AREA OF BE-F MINERALIZATION ALONG DIKE IMMEDIATELY W OF UPPER CURVE CR. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Deposit): BE-BEARING REPLACEMENT BODIES IN LIMESTONE OVERRIDDEN BY RAPID RIVER THRUST FAULT CONSIST MAINLY OF SILICA, FLUORITE, PYRITE, AND LOCALLY STIBNITE(?) AND DIASPORE; ORE DISCONTINOUS ALONG FAULT FOR 4000 FT, RICHER WHERE LIMETONE HAS BEEN INTRUDED BY DIKES EMPLOCED ALONG THE THRUST; SAMPLE OF RHYOLITE DIKE CONTAINED U-BEARING FLUORITE, PYRITE AND HEMATITE.
Comment (Geology): SEVERAL DIKES OF RHYOLITE AND/OR POSSIBLY OTHER TYPES; TREND: N 80-85 DEGREES E; EMPLACED ALONG RAPID RIVER THRUST.
Comment (Deposit): POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF BESSIE-MAPLE MINERALIZED ZONE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Deposit): THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.
References
Reference (Other Database): BAG-MF-426-04
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 77-796-B, P. 5, LOC. 28.
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 51, P. 25.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULLETIN 1287, P. 77-78.
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