Ketchem Dome Prospect, Circle Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Ketchem Dome Prospect | Prospect |
Circle Mining District | Mining District |
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | Census Area |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
65° 28' 1'' North , 144° 47' 13'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
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Mindat Locality ID:
198348
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:198348:0
GUID (UUID V4):
3ebf8ab5-4996-4f93-8130-0bc43c4d337b
Location: The location is approximately 1500 ft NE of the Ketchem Dome summit at the site of the Ketchem Dome tin prospect trench reported in Dahlin and others (1987). The Ketchem Dome tin prospect is located approximately 5 miles southwest of Circle Hot Springs. The prospect lies 1 mile to the west of, and approximately 1300 ft above, a gravel road that leads north to the Steese Highway.
Geology: The following information is taken from a Bureau of Mines report by Dahlin and others (1987). The tin mineralization on Ketchem Dome consists of cassiterite which occurs as grains disseminated in a greisen matrix. A bulk sample from the largest and best-developed greisen vein exposed at Ketchem Dome contained 0.51 percent Sn. Concentration of the cassiterite by gravity table methods resulted in a product that contained 56 percent cassiterite at a grade of 41.4 percent Sn. The tin-bearing greisen vein mineralization near Ketchem Dome cuts a leucocratic, seriate phase of the Circle Hot Springs biotite granite pluton near its contact with hornfelsed sedimentary rocks. The pluton has been K-Ar dated at 60.5 +/- 1.8 m.a. (Wilson and Shew, 1981). Four hand-excavated trenches expose the greisen near Ketchem Dome. The greisen is mineralogically zoned, with a selvage of muscovite-altered granite that grades into a core of dense, black, chlorite- and sericite-altered granite with traces of limonite after pyrite and veinlets of quartz. Purple fluorite occurs on fractures, and topaz is locally associated with more pervasive alteration. The mineralization exposed at Ketchem Dome is typical of greisen found elsewhere in the area. One sample assayed greater than 1,000 ppm Sn (Dave Menzie, USGS, field notes, 1984).
Workings: Five pits in area, excavated by Resource Associates of Alaska in 1983.
Age: The tin-bearing greisen vein mineralization near Ketchem Dome cuts a biotite granite pluton near its contact with hornfelsed sedimentary rocks. The pluton has been K-Ar dated at 60.5 +/- 1.8 m.a. (Wilson and Shew, 1981).
Alteration: Chloritic, quartz-white mica, topaz, fluorite.
Commodities (Major) - Sn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Sn greisen deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 15c)
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This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
3 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
β Cassiterite Formula: SnO2 |
β 'Feldspar Group' |
β Muscovite Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
β Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
β 'Tourmaline' Formula: AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
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β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
β | Cassiterite | 4.DB.05 | SnO2 |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
β | Muscovite | 9.EC.15 | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Unclassified | |||
β | 'Feldspar Group' | - | |
β | 'Tourmaline' | - | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
List of minerals for each chemical element
H | Hydrogen | |
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H | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
B | Boron | |
B | β Tourmaline | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
O | Oxygen | |
O | β Cassiterite | SnO2 |
O | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
O | β Tourmaline | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
Al | Aluminium | |
Al | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
K | Potassium | |
K | β Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
Sn | Tin | |
Sn | β Cassiterite | SnO2 |
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