Mine detail: Graphite Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

65.03929, -165.53833

Resource(N)

Primary:	Graphite
Ore:	Graphite
Gangue:	Amphibole, Biotite, Garnet, Muscovite, Plagioclase, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Sillimanite, Sphene, Zircon

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Schist
Alteration processes:	Some shearing and deformation of graphite-rich lenses has accompanied faulting and oxidation of disseminated pyrrhotite has led to orange-staining of graphite-bearing rocks but other types of alteration are not identified.

References

MRDS	A015734
DEP	10003194
Reference	{Deposit:: Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Geologic map of the Teller quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-685, 4 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of the Teller quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-426, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Weiss, P.L., 1973, Graphite: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 820, p. 277-283.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Plafker, George, 1978, Kigluaik and Bendeleben faults, Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 772-B, p. B47-B50.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., 1981, Preliminary notes on the Kigluaik graphite deposits, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, Anaconda Minerals Company internal memorandum (Report held by Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska).}{Deposit:: Swainbank, R.C., Bundtzen, T.K., Clough, A.H., Henning, M.W., and Hansen E.W., 1995, Alask * mineral industry 1994: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 49, 77 p.}
Reporter	Travis L. Hudson