Mine detail: Roy Creek

Previously called 'Little Champion Creek'

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Location

Lat / long: 65.43776, -146.59103

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Ore: Allanite, Bastnaesite, Monazite, Thorianite, Thorite, Uraninite, Xenotime
Gangue: Topaz, Tourmaline

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Granite
Associated rock:Mt. Prindle Pluton
Associated type:Granite
Alteration processes:There is hematitic alteration of wall rock and leaching of magnetite in host rocks (Burton, 1981).

References

MRDSA012255
DEP10001508
Reference{Deposit:: Holm, Bjarne, 1973, Bedrock geology and mineralization of the Mount Prindle area, Yukon-Tanana upland: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 55 p.}{Deposit:: Barker, J.C. and Clautice, K. H., 1997, Anomalous uranium concentrations in artesian springs and stream sediments in the Mount Prindle area, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 130-77, 19 p.}{Deposit:: Burton, P.J., 1981, Radioactive mineral occurrences, Mt. Prindle area, Yukon-Tanana Uplands: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 72 p.}{Deposit:: Menzie, W.D., Foster, H.L., Tripp, R.B., and Yeend, W.E., 1983, Mineral resource assessment of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-B, 61 p., 1 sheet, 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., Green, C.B. and Lueck, L.L., 1986, Alask* mineral industry in 1985: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 39, 68 p.}{Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p.}
ReporterC.J. Freeman, J.R. Guidetti Schaefer, A.S. Clements