Ahua

The Ahua is a copper mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Ahua

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
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

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sulfide-bearing black shale is stained and bleached.

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Marcasite
Ore: Pyrite

Comments

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The occurrence has been visited and sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey (Schmidt and Allegro, 1988).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

Comment (Geology): Age = Early Mississippian.

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Schmidt and Allegro, 1988

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 31a).

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Ahua occurrence consists of stained and bleached zones in black shale containing lenses of massive, botryoidal pyrite-marcasite. Samples of the sulfides contain as much as 60 ppm As, 2 ppm Ag, 100 ppm Zn, 5 ppm Ag, 700 ppm Ba, 20 ppm Co, 200 ppm Cu, 20% Fe, 30 ppm Mo, 100 ppm Ni and 50 ppm Pb. Pyrite-rich samples contain as much as 200 ppm Cu, 50 ppm Pb, 30 ppm Mo, 100 ppm Ni, 100 ppm Zn, 5 ppm Ag, 60 ppm As, 700 ppm Ba, and 20 ppm Co (Schmidt and Allegro, 1988). The host rocks are Lower Mississippian black shale that are similar to the Kuna Formation (Karl and others, 1985).

References

Reference (Deposit): Schmidt, J.M., and Allegro, G.L., 1988, Map showing mineral occurrences and indicators in the Baird Mountains quadrangle, northwestern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1992, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

Reference (Deposit): Karl, S.M., Schmidt, J.M., and Folger, P.F., 1985, Selected anomalous rock and sediment samples from central and northwestern Baird Mountains quadrangle, in Bartsch-Winkler, S., ed., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska--Accomplishments during 1984: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 967, p. 8-13.

Reference (Deposit): Zayatz, M.R., Thompson, W.B., Bailey, E.A., Sutley, S.J., Folger, P.F., Karl, S.M., and Schmidt, J.M., 1988, Analytical results and sample locality maps of mineralized and unmineralized rock samples from the Baird Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-256-A, 159 p., 2 plates, scale 1:250,000.

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