The Babybasket is a zinc and copper mine located in Alaska.
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Babybasket MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Babybasket
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Alaska
District: McGrath
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: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic Replacement Deposit (?)(Cox and Singer, 1986; model no. 19a)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Similar deposits are described in the McGrath and Lime Hills quadrangles (Bundtzen and others, 1994; 1997).
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = The Babybasket occurrence was found as the result of sampling by the U.S. Geological Survey (King and others, 1980; 1983).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Babybasket prospect consists of several zones of disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite and rare sphalerite in calc-silicate skarn and carbonate replacement zones. The mineralized zones are adjacent to gabbro-diorite dikes and sills that intrude Cambro-Ordovician silty limestone and shale of the Lyman Hills Formation, the lower-most part of the Dillinger subterrane as defined by Bundtzen and others (1997). No size or orientations of mineralized zones are known. The occurrences were detected as a result of anomalous values found in stream sediment and pan concentrate samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (King and others, 1980; 1983). Age is probably either Paleozoic or Triassic, based on isotopic age data collected from equivalent gabbro-diorite sills in the McGrath quadrangle (Bundtzen and others, 1997).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = King and others, 1980
Comment (Geology): Age = the Babybasket occurrence is probably either Paleozoic or Triassic, based on isotopic age data collected from equivalent gabbro-diorite sills in the McGrath quadrangle (Bundtzen and others, 1997).
References
Reference (Deposit): Bundtzen, T.K., Laird, G.M., Harris, E.E., and Clautice, K.H., 1994, Geologic map of the Lime Hills C-5 and C-6 quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public Data File Report 94-40, 30 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): King, H.D., Tripp, R.B., O'Leary, R.M., and Cooley, E.F., 1983, Distribution and abundance of copper, lead, and zinc in nonmagnetic and moderately magnetic heavy-mineral- concentrate, minus-80-mesh stream-sediment, and ash of aquatic-bryophyte samples, Medfra quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-811-I, 6 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
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