Mine detail: Death Valley

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.04936, -162.2533

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Ore: Coffinite, Sphalerite, Meta-Autunite
Gangue: Pyrite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:Various clays are developed in the host sedimentary rocks of the epigenetic deposit that may reflect alteration processes. The supergene enrichment accompanies alteration associated with weathering processes.

References

MRDSA012750
DEP10096786
Reference{Deposit:: Miller, T.P., and Bunker, C.M., 1976, A reconnaissance study of the uranium and thorium contents of plutonic rocks of the southeastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Journal of Research, v. 4, p. 367-377.}{Deposit:: Johnson, B.R., Miller, T.P., and Karl, S., 1979, Uranium-thorium investigations of the Darby pluton, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 804-B, p. 68-70.}{Deposit:: Fisher, M.A., Patton, W.W., Jr., and Holmes, M.L., 1982, Geology of Norton Basin and continental shelf beneath northwestern Bering Sea, Alaska: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 66, p. 255-285.}{Deposit:: Dickinson, K.A., Cunningham, K.D., and Ager, T.A, 1987, Geology and origin of the Death Valley uranium deposit, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 82, p. 1558-1574.}{Deposit:: Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Worrall, D.M., 1991, Tectonic history of the Bering Sea and the evolution of Tertiary strike-slip basins of the Bering Shelf: Geological Society of America Special Paper 257, 120 p.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson