Soluka Creek Occurrence, Bristol Bay Mining District, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, USAi
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Soluka Creek Occurrence | Occurrence |
Bristol Bay Mining District | Mining District |
Kodiak Island Borough | Borough |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
58° 9' 23'' North , 154° 51' 28'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
200077
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:200077:3
GUID (UUID V4):
ed5ea779-ae3f-4a2f-8690-0170afbb3078
The occurrence is in Katmai National Monument.
Location: This occurrence is on the east bank of Soluka Creek about nine miles above its mouth. It is at an elevation of under 300 feet in the NW1/4 sec. 28, R. 23 S., T. 34 W., of the Seward Meridian. The location is accurate within one-quarter mile.
Geology: This occurrence is along the contact of a Tertiary pluton with Cretaceous sedimentary rocks and propylitically altered Tertiary volcanic rocks. The contact zone contains disseminated pyrite and radial quartz veins with pyrite and sphalerite (Church, Riehle, and Goldfarb, 1993). The occurrence is associated with a geochemical anomaly with 130 parts per million or more arsenic, 50 ppm or more cobalt, 500 ppm or more nickel, and 200 ppm or more zinc.
Workings: Apparently only geochemical sampling by government geologists.
Age: Tertiary or younger; mineralization appears to be related to alteration zones adjacent to a Tertiary pluton.
Alteration: The volcanic rocks are propylitically altered adjacent to the pluton.
Commodities (Major) - Zn; (Minor) - As, Co, Cu, Ni
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Polymetallic vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c).
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
3 valid minerals.
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
Zn | Zinc | |
Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
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Link to USGS - Alaska: | MK020 |
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