Bond Creek

The Bond Creek is a molybdenum and copper mine located in Alaska at an elevation of 6,699 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Bond Creek
Secondary: Taku 1-27
Secondary: Bond Creek-Orange Hill
Secondary: Johnson Creek
Secondary: Chathenda Creek

Commodity

Primary: Molybdenum
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold

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

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Kennecott Corp.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Washington
Info Year: 1977

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1962
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Porphyry Cu-Mo

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: Potassic

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: Phyllic

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: Argillic

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: Propylitic

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Pyrite
Unknown: Feldspar
Unknown: Feldspar
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Biotite
Unknown: Galena

Comments

Comment (Workings): Surface workings.

Comment (Geology): Central Altered Zone (about 600 x 2,000 meters) contains abundant chlorite, minor biotite, and potassium feldspar, and spotty sericite. Outer Zone (2,000 x 3,000 meters) contains chlorite, epidote, and anhydrite.

Comment (Deposit): Model name = porphyry, vein, stockwork.

Comment (Geology): The prospect is in a large altered zone along the margin of the Nabesna Pluton in an area underlain by Triassic Nikolai Greenstone; both the Nabesna granitic rocks and the Nikolai Greenstone are cut by Tertiary porphyry dikes and small stocks.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Indicated and inferred tonnage of 500 million tonnes of ore averaging 0.30% CU and 0.02% MO (Richter, Singer, and Cox, 1975, USGS MF-655-K, Loc. 30).

Comment (Development): Bear Creek Mining Company was reported as active on the property in 1981. Prospect has been drilled to a limited extent, surface sampling done by USGS in 1974.

Comment (Location): Best Location: USGS I-789, Location 3; 4 miles east of the Orange Hill deposit. Accurate within 200 feet. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Comment (Deposit): Part of Wrangell National Park and Preserve; largest porphyry copper deposit in the Nabesna 1:250,000-scale quadrangle. See also: Orange Hill.

Comment (Deposit): Discovery year: Early 1960's.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): CAPACITY INCLUDED IN ORANGE HILL 0020780015 DEMONSTRATED IN-SITU RESOURCE AS OF 12/31/78 DEMONSTRATED MINEABLE RESERVES ESTIMATED AT: 250,000,000 MT @ 0.30% CU, 0.015% MO

Comment (Commodity): Comparison of surface and subsurface data from the nearby Orange Hill deposit and information from mineral industry sources indicate that the tenor of surface samples is about half of the tenor of subsurface samples, apparently due to surface leaching.

Comment (Ownership): OWNER ADDRESS: BEAR CREEK MINING COMPANY P.O. BOX 9-DISHMAN BRANCH 7821 EAST SPRAGUE AVENUE SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 99213. PHONE: (509) 924-2600 TWX: (509) 328-8570 PGQM SERIES OBTAINED THROUGH PERSONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EVALUATOR AND EXPLORATION MGR- BEAR CREEK MINING COMPANY ALL PGQM SERIES ESTABLISHED USING BEAR CREEK INFORMATION. LANDS WITHDRAWN AS WRANGELL MTS. NATIONAL PRESERVE. PROPOSED BENEFICIATION WITH ORANGE HILL DEPOSIT (0020780015)

Comment (Deposit): Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and minor molybdenite in quartz veinlets and as disseminations in granodiorite and quartz monzonite porphyry.

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Capps, S.R., 1916, The Chisana-White River district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 630, 130 p.

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 (Reserve-Resource): Engineering & Mining Journal 7905 p. 83, No. 145
Pages: 83

Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., and Conwell, C. N., 1982 Review of Alaska's Mineral Resources; Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys and Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development, AMR 81-82.
Pages: 11

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., Albert, N.R.D., Barnes, D.F., Griscom, A., Marsh, S.P., and Singer, D.A., 1975, The Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program; background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Nabesna Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 718, 6 p.

Reference (Deposit): Engineering & Mining Journal 7905 p. 83, No. 145
Pages: 83

Reference (Deposit): MTA 82 No. E-50

Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-932, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): CU PORPH

Reference (Deposit): Hollister, V.F., Anzalone, S.A., and Richter, D.H., 1975, Porphyry copper belts of southern Alaska and contiguous Yukon Territory: Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin, v. 68, no. 756, p. 104-112.
Pages: 104-112

Reference (Ownership): ALASKA KARDEX 078-065

Reference (Deposit): Richter, D.H., 1973, Reconnaissance geological map of the Nabesna A-4 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map 1-789, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.

Reference (Deposit): Eakins, G.R., Bundtzen, T.K., Lueck, L.L., Green, C.B., Gallagher, J.L., and Robinson, M.S., 1985, Alaska's mineral industry 1984: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report 38, 57 p.
Pages: 45

Reference (Analytical Data): Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1970, Geochemical data from the Nabesna A-4 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 70-276, 14 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360. (Note: prior to 1975 this publication had a different Open-File designation: Technical Data Unit classification number 398.)

Reference (Geology): Richter, D.H., Lanphere, M.A., and Matson, N.A., Jr., 1975, Granite plutonism and metamorphism, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska: Geological Society of American Bulletin, v. 86, p. 819-820.

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, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Linn, G.W., 1973, Geology of Orange Hill, Alaska: Berkeley, University of California, M.A. thesis, 119 p.

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