Latitude: 69°1'48"N
Longitude: 144°31'11"W
U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 63-78, p. 21 was listed as a reference to this occurrence by was not recovered by Kelley in the latest review.
Location: Accurate to within 2,220 meters (4,000 ft). Brosge' and Reiser, 1976, Location 43; Grybeck, 1977, p. 40, Location 12.
Geology: Chalcopyrite is present in phyllite interbedded with chert and volcanic rocks. Rocks are reported to be in the cambrian-ordovician(?) neruokpuk(?) fm.. This occurrence is unlikely to be Neruokpuk as the term is currently used. Sandstone, not volcanic rock, is the dominant rock type of the Neruokpuk Schist of Leffingwell (1919) as mapped and used by Reiser and others ( 1980) and Lane and others (1995).
Workings: None
Commodities (Major) - Cu; (Minor) - Cu
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Cu in shale
References
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