Occurrences of Molybdenum Minerals in Alaska (open access)

Occurrences of Molybdenum Minerals in Alaska

Abstract: In the accompanying report reference is made to all of the deposits in Alaska in which molybdenum minerals have been definitely recognized and reported. None of the deposits have been mined commercially, and none of them have been prospected thoroughly enough to afford quantitative estimates as to their tenor and potential reserves ; in fact, at only a few of the localities has there been more than surficial testing. Forty-one separate and distinct localities where molybdenum minerals occur are listed, and the available information on factors of geologic significance regarding each occurrence is given. A small-scale map of Alaska on which the various localities are indicated forms part of the bulletin, and in the text are extensive references to the various published reports and records of the Survey upon which the statements are based. In spite of the widespread distribution of molybdenum mineralization in Alaska, the remoteness of many of the localities, their handicap through dearth of transportation facilities and labor supplies, and the already wellsupplied condition of the American market for molybdenum ores discourage the early development of any of the known deposits or search for them in unsurveyed areas. These draw-backs will doubtless become -less important factors …
Date: 1942
Creator: Smith, Philip S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nickel-Copper Deposits on the West Coast of Chichagof Island, Alaska (open access)

Nickel-Copper Deposits on the West Coast of Chichagof Island, Alaska

From abstract: On the west coast of Chichagof Island, southeastern Alaska, are three nickel-copper deposits that consist of norite containing the sulfide minerals pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite. The deposits are within less than a mile of each other and are, by water, 160 miles southwest of Juneau and 70 miles northwest of Sitka. The norite is part of a stock, about 5 square miles of which is above sea level. Other rocks of the stock are amphibolite, amphibolitic norite, gabbro, diorite, quartz diorite, monzonite, granite, pegmatites, quartz veins, and schist inclusions. The stock is intrusive into a Lower Cretaceous (?) graywacke formation and an Upper Triassic (?) greenstone formation, both of which are now metamorphosed to schist.
Date: 1942
Creator: Pecora, W. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nickel-Copper Deposit at Snipe Bay, Baranof Island, Alaska (open access)

Nickel-Copper Deposit at Snipe Bay, Baranof Island, Alaska

Abstract: At Snipe Bay, on the outer coast of Baranof Island, about 46 miles southeast of Sitka in southeastern Alaska, is a nickelcopper deposit that consists of a mass of basic rock intruded into quartzite and quartz schist. Neither the size nor the grade of the deposit is adequately known. Natural exposures and those in a few prospect openings indicate that to an assumed depth of about 130 feet below the lowest point on the outcrop there is a reserve of about 430,000 tons of low-grade nickelbearing material, which, to judge from available assays and from comparison with similar material from other places, probably does not contain more than 0.3 percent each of nickel and copper. The deposit thus appears too small and of too low grade to permit the recovery of the nickel and copper except at a considerable financial loss; but as the location is favorable for largescale, low-cost development, further prospecting may be justified, in the hope that a moderate amount of surface stripping, plus a few diamond-drill holes, might indicate that the deposit is larger, and possibly of higher grade, than it is safe to infer from the available data.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, John C. & Gates, George O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antimony Deposits of the Stampede Creek Area, Kantishna District, Alaska (open access)

Antimony Deposits of the Stampede Creek Area, Kantishna District, Alaska

From abstract: The Stampede Creek area lies about 120 miles southwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is most readily accessible by air during the summer and by tractor road during the winter. Since 1936 approximately 2,400 tons of shipping-grade antimony ore and concentrates, containing about 1,300 tons of metallic antimony, have been produced at the Stampede mine. The mine was closed down in the spring of 1941, principally because of the high cost of transportation. The area is underlain largely by metamorphosed rocks of the Birch Creek schist. The schist has been warped and crumpled into many broad, open folds which strike northeast and also plunge to the northeast. The Stampede mine is in the schistose quartzite member of the Birch Creek schist.
Date: 1942
Creator: White, Donald Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nickel-Copper Deposit at Funter Bay, Admiralty Island, Alaska (open access)

Nickel-Copper Deposit at Funter Bay, Admiralty Island, Alaska

From abstract: The nickel-copper deposit near the north end of Admiralty Island, about 18 miles in an airline west of Juneau, in southeastern Alaska, consists of a basic sill which averages somewhat more than 100 feet in thickness. The sill, which dips eastward, is intrusive into a thick sequence of phyllite and various types of schist. The rock of the sill consists principally of the silicate minerals labradorite and olivine, but it also contains magnetite and the sulfides pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite. It assays, on the average, about 0.34 percent nickel and 0.35 copper, which are doubtless mostly in the pentlandite and chalcopyrite respectively but are probably constituents of other minerals also. A significant proportion of nickel and copper is probably contained in the olivine and perhaps in the pyrrhotite.
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, John C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chromite Deposits of Red Bluff Bay and Vicinity, Baranof Island, Alaska (open access)

Chromite Deposits of Red Bluff Bay and Vicinity, Baranof Island, Alaska

From introduction: The Red Bluff Bay area was examined briefly for the Geological Survey by John C. Reed and others in 1939. During the summer of 1941 the writers, with R. E. L. Rutledge, mapped this area on a scale of 1:12,000, and examined the serpentine masses in the interior during the course of reconnaissance trips into the surrounding region.
Date: 1942
Creator: Guild, Philip White & Balsley, James R., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tertiary Deposits of the Eagle-Circle District, Alaska (open access)

Tertiary Deposits of the Eagle-Circle District, Alaska

From introduction: The present report aims to supply additional information regarding the Tertiary deposits, which are the source of most of the gold placers now being worked in that part of the Eagle-Circle district lying south of the Yukon River. The work was conducted from base camps along the river, but the belt of Tertiary rocks is at places as much as 20 miles from the Yukon, so that it is not easily accessible from the river except in the vicinity of mining camps, where roads or trails have been constructed southward.
Date: 1942
Creator: Mertie, John Beaver, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Gerstle River District, Alaska, with a Report on the Black Rapids Glacier (open access)

Geology of the Gerstle River District, Alaska, with a Report on the Black Rapids Glacier

From abstract: The area here described includes most of the north side of the Alaska Range between the Delta and Johnson Rivers, in one direction, and the axis of the Alaska Range and the Tanana River in the other. Besides the Delta River, its principal streams are Jarvis Creek, the Gerstle and Little Gerstle Rivers, and, at the extreme east, the Johnson River, all of which have glacial sources.
Date: 1942
Creator: Moffit, Fred H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nickel Deposits of Bohemia Basin and Vicinity, Yakobi Island, Alaska (open access)

Nickel Deposits of Bohemia Basin and Vicinity, Yakobi Island, Alaska

From Introduction: "According to present knowledge, the deposits center principally, in three areas: Bonemia Basin on Yakobi Island, Mirror Harbor on Chicagof Island, and Snipe Bay on Baranof Island. This report deals only with the deposits of the most northerly area, in and near Bohemia Basin."
Date: 1942
Creator: Reed, John C. & Dorr, John Van N., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chromite deposits of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (open access)

Chromite deposits of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

This report describes field work and research done in two areas of ultramafic rocks containing chromite deposits are known at the south end of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The Red Mountain is the other area covered in this report.
Date: 1942
Creator: Guild, Philip White
System: The UNT Digital Library