CC Barite Occurrence, Tok Mining District, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
CC Barite Occurrence	Occurrence
Tok Mining District	Mining District
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

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Location: The CC Barite occurrence is located at an elevation of about 5,600 feet, 0.2 mile north-northwest of peak 6835 and 0.8 mile west-northwest of peak 6740 in the NW1/4 section 34, T. 17 N., R. 7 E., Copper River Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The CC Barite occurrence is in an exposure of the Drum unit; bedded barite is enclosed in quartz-sericite schist that contains sparse disseminated galena and chalcopyrite. This is the only occurrence of bedded barite that has been identified in the Delta mineral belt; it may represent an exhalative precipitate that accumulated peripheral to or capping a sulfide system. It was found during field checking of airborne electromagnetic anomalies that trace a graphitic schist unit below this barite occurrence (S.S. Dashevsky, written communication, 2003). The Drum unit that hosts the CC Barite occurrence consists of white to pale gray-green, rusty weathering, quartz-sericite(-chlorite-pyrite) schist with minor gray to black carbonaceous phyllite and rare interbeds of chloritic phyllite. The schist commonly contains 1 to 5 percent quartz eyes but may contain more. The protoliths of the schist are about two-thirds of volcanic origin and one-third of sedimentary origin. The schist has a phyllitic parting in many places.
Workings: There has only been surface sampling and mapping at this occurrence (S.S. Dashevsky, written communication, 2003).
Age: The enclosing Drum unit has been dated at the Devonian-Mississippian boundary on the basis of one SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age of 359 +/- 6 Ma determined at the DD South prospect (MH325) (Dashevsky and others, 2003).

Commodities (Major) - Ba; (Minor) - Cu, Pb
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Kuroko massive sulfide (Cox and Singer, 1986; model

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	MH348

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