Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - HU016; in Zane Hills; south of upper Caribou Creek), Hughes Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
66° 7' 5'' North , 155° 58' 22'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
KΓΆppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Huslia | 275 (2011) | 50.5km |
Mindat Locality ID:
200806
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:200806:9
GUID (UUID V4):
4524836a-0cf2-4238-88b7-2a7a2e343655
See also HU011.
Location: This occurrence is about 8. 5 miles southwest of Hogatza and four miles south of Caribou Mountain. It is about 0.2 mile south of the center of section 5, T. 8 N., R. 14 E. of the Kateel River Meridian. The location is accurate within 1 mile.
Geology: This occurrence consists of radioactive and rare-earth accessory minerals in the border phases of the Cretaceous, Zane Hills pluton. Miller and Ferrians (1968) noted that the quartz monzonitic to monzonitic border phase of the generally granodioritic, Zane Hills pluton showed 5 to 10 times background radioactivity. They also noted that large K-felspar phenocrysts, as well as tourmaline-bearing aplite dikes, are common in the border phase. Samples of porphyritic quartz monzonite from the border phase contain 20 ppm uranium. Miller and Elliott (1977) described the border phase rocks as monzonite, syenite, quartz monzonite, and hybrid diorite. They indicate an intrusive contact between the border phase and the main Zane Hills granodiorite, and that the monzonitic, border phase is younger. Their samples from the border phase contain 11 to 99 ppm uranium and 46 to 269 ppm, thorium. The uranium and thorium are concentrated in grains of uranothorianite, thorite, betafite, allanite, zircon, and sphene, which occur as disseminated accessory minerals in the monzonite. Although they found no vein-type mineralization, Miller and Elliott (1977) conclude that the border phase intrusives are enriched in U and Th. Sphene from two samples of gneissic monzonite (presumed to be border phase intrusive) from the Zane Hills pluton a few kilometers upstream from the Hogatza placer deposit (HU014) contain 27,890 to 39,180 ppm REE, and 390 to 760 ppm thorium (Staatz and others, 1977). Later investigations, however, suggest that the border phase rocks contain no unusual concentrations of REE (Barker, 1991).
Workings: Only surface sampling.
Age: K-Ar age dating of hornblende from the monzonite at the south end of the Zane Hills pluton gives an age of 81.9 Ma (Miller and others, 1966).
Alteration: At the contact between border phase monzonite-quartz monzonite and the core granodiorite, the granodiorite is, at least locally, strongly altered to a bleached, fine-grained, sericitic rock. Although the alteration diminishes in intensity away from the contact, all of the original biotite is completely altered to sericite. The granodiorite exhibits cataclastic texture near the contact.
Commodities (Major) - REE, Th, U
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Felsic plutonic U-REE (Nokleberg and others, 1987)
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4 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
β 'Allanite Group' Formula: (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
β 'Pyrochlore Supergroup' Formula: A2-mD2X6-wZ1-n |
β 'Pyrochlore Supergroup var. Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)' Formula: (Ca,Na,U)2(Ti, Nb,Ta)2O6Z(OH) |
β Thorianite Formula: ThO2 |
β Thorianite var. Uranothorianite Formula: (Th,U)O2 |
β Thorite Formula: Th(SiO4) |
β Titanite Formula: CaTi(SiO4)O |
β Zircon Formula: Zr(SiO4) |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
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β | Thorianite | 4.DL.05 | ThO2 |
β | var. Uranothorianite | 4.DL.05 | (Th,U)O2 |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
β | Thorite | 9.AD.30 | Th(SiO4) |
β | Zircon | 9.AD.30 | Zr(SiO4) |
β | Titanite | 9.AG.15 | CaTi(SiO4)O |
Unclassified | |||
β | 'Pyrochlore Supergroup var. Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)' | - | (Ca,Na,U)2(Ti, Nb,Ta)2O6Z(OH) |
β | '' | - | A2-mD2X6-wZ1-n |
β | 'Allanite Group' | - | (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
List of minerals for each chemical element
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