York Creek (West)

The York Creek (West) is a tungsten and tin mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: York Creek (West)

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Primary: Tin

Location

State: Alaska
District: Port Clarence

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: Alluvial placer Sn

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Powellite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Quaternary

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Mulligan, 1959 (USBM RI 5520)

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Three USBM churn-drill holes have been completed here (Mulligan, 1959, p. 6, 15, and 16).

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Alluvial tin placer (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 39e)

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The headwater area of York Creek, on the north flank of the Brooks Mountain area, includes the contact zone of the Brooks Mountain granite stock and a small granite plug in Ordovician limestone (Sainsbury, 1969, plate 1). Fine-grained, carbonaceous metapelitic rocks of uncertain but probable Paleozoic age are also present in this area and thermally metamophosed near granite intrusions. Three USBM churn-drill holes were completed at this locality (Mulligan, 1959, p. 6). The 7.5 to 12 feet of gravel overlying shale and limy shale bedrock contain a trace of tin per cubic yard. Minerals identified in the heavy mineral concentrate included pyrite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, garnet, barite, tourmaline, scheelite, and powellite (Mulligan, 1959, p. 16).

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-587, 130 p.

Reference (Deposit): Sainsbury, C.L., 1969, Geology and ore deposits of the central York Mountains, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1287, 101 p.

Reference (Deposit): Mulligan, J.J., 1959, Sampling stream gravels for tin, near York, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 5520, 25 p.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

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