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Bob Occurrence, Chandalar Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
67° 52' 47'' North , 148° 40' 48'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
196569
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:196569:1
GUID (UUID V4):
0


See also: Bibban prospect (CH090). Alaska Kardex No. 031-61A (Kardex is a card file mining claim information system located at the State of Alaska DNR Public Information Center in Fairbanks).
Location: This occurrence is at an elevation of about 4,500 feet on a ridge approximately 1 1/2 miles southwest of the headwater lake on Thru Creek (NE1/4 sec. 9, T. 35 N., R. 5 W., of the Fairbanks Meridian). The location is accurate within a 1/2-mile radius.
Geology: The Bob prospect is one of several Pb-Zn-Ag plus or minus Cu prospects near this site (DeYoung, 1978). Information specific to the property is sparse and only describes the prospect as galena and sphalerite with silver values in skarn associated with limestone (Grybeck, 1977). Newberry and others (1997) include the Bob prospect in a group of calcic Zn-Pb skarns and replacement bodies. These Zn-Pb skarns are described by Newberry and others (1986) as distal to Devonian(?) porphyry Cu-Mo systems associated with the Horace Mountain plutons in the Chandalar copper belt. The bedrock near of the prospect is mapped as Devonian Hunt Fork Shale near its contact with Skajit Limestone (Brosg
Workings: Claims were located in 1972 and 1976 by Placid Oil. No other information is available.
Age: Devonian(?) based on reported Early Devonian Pb/Pb zircon ages from the associated Baby Creek batholith and Horace Mountain plutons (Dillon and others, 1996).
Alteration: Calc-silicate.

Commodities (Major) - Ag, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Zn-Pb skarn deposits(?) (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 18c)

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2 valid minerals.

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Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Sphalerite2.CB.05aZnS
Galena2.CD.10PbS

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SSulfur
S GalenaPbS
S SphaleriteZnS
ZnZinc
Zn SphaleriteZnS
PbLead
Pb GalenaPbS

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