Moly Dike

The Moly Dike is a molybdenum mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Moly Dike
Secondary: McLeod

Commodity

Primary: Molybdenum
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Manganese
Secondary: Tungsten
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Tin

Location

State: Alaska
District: Kaiyuh

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: Porphyry Mo, low-F

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The principal mineralized dike is pervasively sericitized and locally intensely silicified. The bedded rocks peripheral to the stock are thermally altered to hornfels and contain secondary pyrite and chlorite.

Rocks

Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Old: Early Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Ferrimolybdite

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Host rock is Tertiary - Cretaceous.

Comment (Geology): Age = Cretaceous or Tertiary, the presumed age of the mineralized felsic intrusive hostrock.

Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = ferrimolybdenite

Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous or Tertiary, the age of the granitic stock and its apophyses.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = This occurrence consists of molybdenite-bearing quartz veinlets in a weakly to moderately developed quartz-stockwork zone exposed in frost-riven rubble in an area of about 100 by 1000 feet. The mineralization is hosted by a suite of quartz-feldspar-porphyritic granite dikes that trend 330 degrees across hill 1170 in a swath about 400 feet wide. Individual dikes are up to 100 feet thick. Molybdenite and ferrimolybdenite are concentrated in the northernmost dike, which is highly sericitized and pervasively cut by locally molybdenite-bearing quartz veinlets that form parallel arrays and local stockworks (Bressler and others, 1979). The molybdenite occurs as discrete, platy aggregates along the margins of the quartz veinlets and as very fine grained disseminations in the quartz, imparting a distinct blue-gray color to the veinlets. Vein density ranges from 1 veinlet to more than 15 veinlets per square foot; they are mostly concentrated along the southern contact of the northernmost dike. The molybdenum content of this deposit ranges between 0.01 and 0.09% molybdenum (Bressler and others, 1979).? the country rocks in the general area of this occurrence include poorly sorted, medium- to coarse-grained arkosic sandstone and subordinate siltstone, shale, and lesser intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks. The strata generally strike northwest with gentle dips to the northeast and southwest (Bressler and others, 1979). The dikes occur along the western lobe of a Cretaceous or Tertiary granitic stock composed of 20-40% bipyramidal to subhedral quartz and 10-30% feldspar phenocrysts in a matrix mostly of quartz and feldspar. Pyrite is a minor accessory (<1%), along with rare chalcopyrite; there are no mafic minerals. The outcrop area of the stock measures about 6000 by 2500 feet, and is elongate to the northeast. The exposure is centered along the boundary of sections 32 and 33, and the stock sends dike swarms into sections 4 and 28 (Bressler and others, 1979). A younger suite of biotite-quartz-feldspar porphyritic dikes exposed south of the McLeod prospect apparently does not occur at this site (Bressler and others, 1979).? Also see UL003 and UL005.

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This property is on Doyon, Ltd. selected lands. For more information, contact Doyon, Ltd., in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Comment (Deposit): Model Number = 16a, 21b

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Porphyry Mo (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 16a and 21b)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Bressler and others, 1979

Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface exploration and mapping was conducted by Bear Creek Mining Company in 1976 (Fields, 1976), and by WGM, Inc., on behalf of Doyon, Ltd., in 1979 and 1980 (Bressler and others, 1979; Lessman, 1979). Airborne and radiometric surveys were completed in 1980 (Boniwell, 1981 [DR 81-05]; Boniwell, 1981 [DR 81-08]). A 3500- by 2700-foot molybdenum soil anomaly was defined; this anomaly is open to the southwest.

References

Reference (Deposit): Fields, E.D., 1976, Regional mineral survey of the Kaltag withdrawal area (Doyon, Ltd.) and examination of the McLeod molybdenum prospect, Kaltag, Alaska: Doyon Report 76-21, 9 p. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska).

Reference (Deposit): Lessman, J., 1979, Doyon project 1979 annual progress report: Doyon Report 79-31, 5 p. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska).

Reference (Deposit): Bressler, J., Cleveland, G., Ruzicka, J., 1979, 1979 annual progress report McLeod project area: Doyon Report 79-33, 48 p. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska).

Reference (Deposit): Boniwell, J.B., 1981, Airborne geophysics over the McLeod prospect, Kaiyuh Mountains, Nulato, Alaska: Doyon Report 81-05, 9 p. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska).

Reference (Deposit): Boniwell, J.B., 1981, An addendum to the report on airborne geophysics over the McLeod prospect, Kaiyuh Mountains, Nulato, Alaska: Doyon Report 81-08, 16 sheets. (Report held by Doyon, Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska.)

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