The Thompson Creek is a tungsten mine located in Alaska.
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Thompson Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Thompson Creek
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Alaska
District: Nome
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
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Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Surface sampling of sediments is all that has taken place here.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Hummel (1961) reported scheelite in heavy mineral concentrate from Thompson Creek. Stream sediments from this creek contained as much as 150 ppm copper, 600 ppm zinc, 12 ppm molybdenum, and 50 ppm bismuth (Hummel and Chapman, 1960). Both the north and south contacts of the Thompson Creek orthogneiss (Hummel, 1962 [MF 242]; Till, 1980) are in this drainage, and a tactite occurrence with scheelite (NM035) is just to the north of this drainage.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Hummel, 1961
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer scheelite occurrence.
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene.
References
Reference (Deposit): Till, A.B., 1980, Crystalline rocks of the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: University of Washington, Seattle, M.Sc. thesis, 97 p.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File report 78-93, 213 p.
Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1962, Preliminary geologic map of the Nome D-1 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-248, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Nome quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-463, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., 1961, Regionally metamorphosed metalliferous contact-metasomatic deposits near Nome, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 424-D, p. D198-D199.
Reference (Deposit): Hummel, C.L., and Chapman, R.M., 1960, Geologic and economic significance of some geochemical results obtained from stream sediment samples near Nome, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 400-B, p. B30-33.
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