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Shoulder Mountain Occurrence, Sheenjek Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
67° 57' 36'' North , 143° 47' 24'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
67.96000,-143.79000
GeoHash:
G#: bu1dxgxrd
GRN:
N46W41
Type:
Occurrence
Köppen climate type:
ET : Tundra
Mindat Locality ID:
199926
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:199926:9
GUID (UUID V4):
0


See MAS/MILS Sequence # 0020330006 (USBM, 1995)
Location: Located about 10 mi (16 km) northwest of Shoulder Mountain, between Koness River and Monument Creek, and about 5 mi (8 km) from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; locality recorded here is from Brosge and Reiser (1968), which varies somewhat from locality 29 of Barker (1978) and locality 2 of Barker, 1981); located to within 3 mi (4.8 km).
Geology: Beds or lenses of massive barite, the largest being about 20 ft (6.1 m) thick and at least 100 ft (30.4 m) long (Barker and Clautice, 1978, p. 20, no. 33; Barker, 1981, p. 22, no. 29), interbedded with interlayered chert, shale and Mesozoic? mafic rocks in the Christian River sequence of Brosge and Reiser (1969).

Commodities (Major) - Ba
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Lode; barite bed or lens

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1 valid mineral.

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Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘBaryte7.AD.35BaSO4

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OOxygen
Oⓘ BaryteBaSO4
SSulfur
Sⓘ BaryteBaSO4
BaBarium
Baⓘ BaryteBaSO4

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References

Barker, J.C., 1978, Mineral Investigations of certain lands in the eastern Brooks Range: a summary report: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File No. 63-78, 25 p., 5 sheets. Barker, J.C., 1981, Mineral investigations in the Porcupine River drainage, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 27-81, 189 p., 2 sheets. Barker, J.C., and Clautice, K.H., 1978, Mineral reconnaissance of the Porcupine River region--A summary report: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 87-78, 20 p. Brosg
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