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Cars; Salcha River Prospect, Circle Mining District, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USAi
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Cars; Salcha River ProspectProspect
Circle Mining DistrictMining District
Fairbanks North Star BoroughBorough
AlaskaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
65° 6' 21'' North , 144° 6' 39'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
65.10583,-144.11083
GeoHash:
G#: bg9d2sjsy
GRN:
N44W46
Type:
Prospect
Köppen climate type:
Dfc : Subarctic climate
Mindat Locality ID:
196817
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:196817:3
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Location: The coordinates are for the site of a scheelite-bearing quartz vein in NE1/4 sec. 8, T. 3 N., R. 18 E.
Geology: Scheelite occurs within a discontinuous idocrase-garnet skarn in interlayered calc-silicate schist and impure marble along a contact with a lower Tertiary granite pluton (Nokleberg and others, 1987, p. 34). The schist and marble are part of the middle Paleozoic or older Yukon-Tanana terrane (Nokleberg and others, 1987, p. 34).
Workings: Surface samples only.

Commodities (Major) - W
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Tungsten Skarn Deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 14a)

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1 valid mineral.

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Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘScheelite7.GA.05Ca(WO4)

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OOxygen
Oⓘ ScheeliteCa(WO4)
CaCalcium
Caⓘ ScheeliteCa(WO4)
WTungsten
Wⓘ ScheeliteCa(WO4)

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References

Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., Clough, J.G., Lueck, L.L., Green, C.B., Robinson, M.S., and Coleman, D.A., 1984, Alaska's mineral industry, 1983: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 33, 56 p. Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., Green, C.B., and Lueck, L.L., 1986, Alaska's mineral industry, 1985: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 39, 68 p. Foster, H.L., Laird, Jo, Keith T.E.C., Cushing, G.W., and Menzie, W.D., 1983, Preliminary geologic map of the Circle quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-170-A, 32 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. 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. 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., 2 plates, scale 1:5,000,000.
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