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Chalcopyrite from
Ruby Creek, Amber Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruby Creek, Amber Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:142619
Long-form Identifier:1:3:142619:9
GUID (UUID V4):ed8a243b-2352-4364-bf3d-3b88ed127f87
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
2.3km (1.4 miles) Pardner's Hill; Partners Hill; Eightmile Mt. Prospect, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Bornite, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
4.6km (2.9 miles) Aurora Mt. prospect, Ambler Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) Snow Prospect, Kiana Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Sunshine Creek Prospect (CS), Bud Group, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Smucker Prospect (Charlie; Patti; Puzzle; Ambler 4-B), Kiana Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Dead Creek; Steptoes Prospect, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) Horse Creek; Cliff; Dh; Lost Prospect, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
28.3km (17.6 miles) Arctic Prospect, Shungnak Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
34.1km (21.2 miles) Cobre Prospect, Kiana Mining District, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
SURVEY Metallogeny and Major Mineral Deposits of Alaska by 1 Thomas K. BundtzenS 7 Henry C. Berg 0"3 ,...endorsement by the U.S.G.S. ' U.S. Geological Survey ^ Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...unpublished data on metalliferous mineral deposits of Alaska, and on recent and older published articles and... universities, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys... Andersen, Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska Roger P. Ashley, U.S. Geological Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(BORNITE, CHALCOPYRITE, AND PYRITE) SYSTEMATICS OF THE CARBONATE-HOSTED COPPER DEPOSITS AT RUBY CREEK, SOUTHERN...SOUTHERN BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA DAVID SELBY,1,† KAREN D. KELLEY,2 MURRAY W. HITZMAN,3 AND JERRY ZIEG4 1Department...data for chalcopyrite, bornite, and pyrite from the carbonate-hosted Cu deposit at Ruby Creek (Bornite)...(Bornite), Alaska, show extremely high Re abundances (hundreds of ppb, low ppm) and contain essentially no common...carbonate-hosted Ruby Creek Cu-(Co) deposit and demonstrate that the Re-Os systematics of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and
Report (volume)
Metalliferous Lode Deposits and Placer Districts of Alaska By WARREN j. NOKLEBERG, THOMAS K. BUNDTZEN, HENRY...metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786 Bibliography...No.: 119.3:1786 1. Placer deposits-Alaska. 2. Ore deposits-Alaska. I. Nokleberg, Warren j. II. Series...COVER Mill buildings at Kennecott, Alaska. The Kennecott district Cu-Ag mines in the Wrangell Mountains...deposit description for Kennecott district (number 30 for southern Alaska). Copyrighted drawing used by permission
Report (volume)
Placer Deposits of Alaska By EDWARD H. COBB GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1374 An inventory of the...the placer mines and prospects of Alaska, their history and geologic setting UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...and method of presentation __ Definitions _-____ Alaska Peninsula region Aleutian Islands region ________...Anchorage district _ Redoubt district ___-_ _ Valdez Creek district __ _ Willow Creek district Yentna district...district _____________ _ ____ __________ _____ Copper River region __ _ _ _ Chistochina district Nelchina
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1592-1618 Geologyand Mineralization of the Ambler District, NorthwesternAlaska MURRAY W. HITZMAN, ChevronResourcesCompany...Hunt, Ware and Proffett,P.O. Box 111253, Anchorage,Alaska 99511 JEANINEM. SCHMIDT,* Departmentof Applied...Abstract The Ambler district is located along the southernmargin of the BrooksRange, Alaska. Mineral explorationsincethe...explorationsincethe late 1950s in this remote area hasled to the discoveryof a numberof volcanogenic mass...maficvolcanicrocks. Introduction District locationand history River, or foot. Explorationin the area beganin the late
Report (issue)
OTHER MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC METALLOGENIC PROVINCES IN ALASKA (WEST OF THE 141st MERIDIAN) By Jeffrey Y. Foley1...Mines, Alaska Field Operations Center. Present address: 3301 C Street, Suite 525, Anchorage, Alaska, 99503-3935...western Alaska Western Brooks Range metallogenic province Seward Peninsula and western Yukon-Koyukuk Basin...province Northern Yukon-Koyukuk Basin margin metallogenic province Southeastern Yukon-Koyukuk Basin margin...margin and Ruby Geanticline metallogenic province Yukon-Tanana Uplands Livengood-Tofty metallogenic province
Report (issue)
of the Kobuk River basin there is a mineralized area in which placer gold has been mined and copper,...produced annually for several years, in 1910 the district was nearly deserted. Many problems of importance...and the Kobuk on the south. Although this small area is the place where minerals of economic importance...features of northwestern Alaska is in preparation and will serve to extend the area covered by this more...TOPOGRAPHY. Figure 19 shows the general location of the area, which for convenience will be called the Shungnak
Report (issue)
Prepared in cooperation with the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys GIS-Based Identification...Groups, Bureau of Land Management Central Yukon Planning Area, Alaska U.S. Department of the Interior U.S...Geological Survey Prepared in cooperation with the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...Groups, Bureau of Land Management Central Yukon Planning Area, Alaska By James V. Jones, III, Susan M. Karl...groups, Bureau of Land Management Central Yukon Planning Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
Report (volume)
Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska By HENRY C. BERG and EDWARD H. COBB . G E O L O G I C A L S...A n inventory of the mines and )- grosfiects of Alaska and their ' f geologic settings UNITED STATES...acknowledgments--- - - - - - ----- - - - -- - -- 4 Alaska Peninsula region- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -...- - - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - 16 Redoubt district--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---20 Valdez Creek district_--. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Prepared in cooperation with the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys GIS-Based Identification...Minerals in Six Selected Groups of Deposit Types in Alaska Edited by Susan M. Karl, James V. Jones, III, and...minerals in six selected groups of deposit types in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1191...the Paleocene Tired Pup pluton, in the western Alaska Range. The pluton includes both alkaline and peraluminous.............................................. 16 Alaska Resource Data File ...........................
Report (volume)
Economic Geology of Alaska BULLETIN 1155 . Contributions to Economic Geology of Alaska GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Geological Survey. Contributions to economic geology of Alaska. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963. viii...1155) Bibliography: p. 87-89. 1. Geology, Economic-Alaska. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesAlaska. I. Title...Funter Bay nickel-copper deposit, Admiralty Island, Alaska, by Fred Barker-------------------------------...antimony deposits at the Stampede mine, Kantishna district, Alaska, by Fred Barker___________________________________
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...NORTHEASTERN RUSSIA METALLOGENESIS OF MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Noklebergl...and Richard D. Koch 1 1-U.S. Geological Survey ^-Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...OPEN-FILE REPORT 93-339 PREPARED IN COLLABORATION WITH ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...LODE DEPOSITS AND PLACER DISTRICTS FOR MAINLAND ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST By Warren J. Nokleberg1
Report (volume)
Brooks.................................... 5 The mining industry in 1908, by Alfred H. Brooks............peat fuel in Alaska, by C. A. Davis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Mining in southeastern...southeastern Alaska, by C. ,V. Wright............................. 67 Copper mining and prospecting on Prince...resources of southwestern Alaska, by W. W. Atwood.................. 108 Mining in the· Kotsina, Chitina...Chitina, Chistochina, and Valdez Creek regions, by F. H. l\1offit.........................................
Report (volume)
DiBECTOB BULLETIN 536 THE NOATAK-KOBUE REGION ALASKA BY PHILIP S. SMITH WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING............. Koyukuk River to Helpmejack Creek. .......................... Helpmejack Creek to head. ....or Upper Jurassic series....................... Koyukuk group............................................Kobuk basin..................................... Koyukuk basin................................... Other........................................ 126 Dahl Creek................................................
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIEECTOB GEOLOGY OF THE BERBERS BAY REGION ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING.............................................. Chalcopyrite............................................................ 47 Recent Survey publications on Alaska ..................................... 49 Index...important mining district. The first investigation of the mineral resources of southeastern Alaska by the...by Becker a in 1895. More systematic surveys of Alaska were begun in 1898, but for several years the demands
Report (issue)
THE OCCURRENCE OF METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS IN THE YUKON AND KUSKOKWIM REGIONS. By J. B. MERTIE, Jr. INTRODUCTION...Geological Survej7 in Alaska for 25 years, with the primary object of fostering a mining industry in the Territory...objectives is attained by geologic studies in various mining districts to determine the origin, character, and...the mining operator of the present day; that of the second benefits the prospector and the mining operator...the future. Nearly all the developed mining districts in Alaska have been examined by members of the
Report (issue)
SURVEY Pb-isotope data base for sulfides from Alaska, March, 1987 by S. E. Church*, M. H. Delevaux...Bibliography -for Alaska. ........................... 3O ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Regions of Alaska used in this...report.............. 2 Figure 2. Mining regions and districts of Alaska............. 3 TABLES Table 1...from northern Alaska.. 8 Table 2. Pb-isotope data from sulfides from west-central Alaska...............Pb isotope data from sulfides from east-central Alaska..............................................
Report (issue)
SURVEY KNOWN MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA By Donald Grybeck Open-file report 77-166C 1977...BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA by Donald Grybeck This report, one of a series under the Regional Alaska Mineral Resource...mineral deposits of the Brooks Range. The Regional Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program is directed...the land selected under section 17 (d)(2) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Brooks Range Because...bias. Hydrocarbons are unlikely in most of the area with the exception of the Arctic National Wildlife
Report (issue)
production and reserve grades source, fineness, mining methods, other economic commodities and general...is useful for analyzing the roles genetics and mining method have on placer grades and volumes. Deposits...varies from area to area. Individual workings are not included if deposit or district data are presented...gold production for the central Brooks Range, Alaska exceeded the total as reported by deposit. -2-...variety of methods and areas in Alaska, including sluice and drift mining. 5. Some volumes were estimated
Report (issue)
the Congo chalcopyrite (appears in this form on page 22 only; elsewhere, cpy) chalcopyrite carrollite...only sedimentary rock-hosted stratiform copper district that contains significant cobalt. Its presence...with ultramafic rocks, typified by the Bou Azzer district of Morocco, represent another type of primary...younger mafic rocks in southeastern and southern Alaska; also, possibly basement rocks in southeastern...Besshi-type VMS deposits, such as the Greens Creek (Alaska) deposit and the Ducktown (Tennessee) waste
Report (issue)
HAKEINGTON. SUMMARY OF MINING OPERATIONS. t A resume of the history of tin mining in Alaska up to 1914 has been...his report. Stream tin was first found on Buhner Creek, a tributary of Anikovik River, in 1900, and there...since 1902. In 1911 a dredge was installed on Buck Creek which has been in operation each season since. Two...following season. A second dredge was installed on Buck Creek in 1915 and has worked each summer since that date...hull in 1916 and installed on a dredge on Swanson Creek, a tributary of Agiapuk Eiver. The hull was carried
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF THE RUBY-KUSKOKWIM REGION ALASKA BY J. B. MERTIE, Jr. Mineral resources of Alaska, 1933 (Pages...-__________-___ Ruby district._______-___-____--._-_--.-__---_--__._______ Ruby area.______-_____--_...area____-______.__--_-___--__-_-___-_________ 145 Long Creek and Bear Gulch..____________________ Fifth of July...______________________ Greenstone Creek.._______._________._._-_._.___._ Monument Creek.______________________________...Meketchum Creek._______________________________ Trail Creek____.________________________ Flint Creek and tributaries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfide Deposits of the Bonnifield District, East-Central Alaska Cynthia Dusel-Bacon,1,† Nora K. Foley...Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au deposits of the Bonnifield mining district formed during Late Devonian-Early Mississippian...western edge of Laurentia. The largest deposits, Dry Creek and WTF, have a combined resource of 5.7 million...mudstone of the Mystic Creek Member of the Totatlanika Schist Formation. Mystic Creek meta­ rhyolite and...and alkali basalt (Chute Creek Member) constitute a bimodal pair that formed in an extensional environment
Book (volume)
THE GEOLOGY OF ALASKA The Geology of North America 'll L *• / ^ X, ^x /yj 5*? ^^vrA. j /X XxT &...Geology of North America Volume G-l The Geology of Alaska Edited by George Plafker U.S. Geological Survey...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Geology of Alaska / edited by George Plafker and Henry C. Berg, p...educational advancement. 1. Geology—Alaska. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Alaska. I. Plafker, George, 1929. II...north from over the Chaix Hills along the Gulf of Alaska. Bedded marine Tertiary rocks of the Yakutat terrane
Report (volume)
OTIS SMITH, DIKECTOB 4:4:2 MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALASKA REPORT ON PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATIONS IN 1909 ...The mining industry in 1909, by Alfred H. Brooks........................... Page. 5 20 Alaska coal...Charles A. Davis................ 101 Mining in southeastern Alaska, by Adolph Knopf......................reconnaissance in southeastern Alaska, by John C. Hoyt. Mining in the Chitina district, by Fred H. Moffit............................... Mining and prospecting on Prince William Sound, in 1909, by U. S. Grant....
 
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