Unnamed Occurrences (ARDF - MZ012; south of Dulbatna Mountain), Hughes Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi

Regional Level Types
Unnamed Occurrences (ARDF - MZ012; south of Dulbatna Mountain)	- not defined -
Hughes Mining District	Mining District
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: Four lode occurrences are in a 6-square-mile area of ridges and hills due south of Dulbatna Mountain. The site corresponds to ADGGS station 92BT268 (Solie and others, 1993 [Public-Data File 93-18]). It is at an elevation of 1,600 feet, in the northwest corner of section 18, T. 2 S., R. 18 E., Kateel River Meridian. The location is accurate.
Geology: The rocks in the vicinity of these occurrences are part of a northeast-trending, oval-shaped outcrop of fine- to medium-grained hornblende-biotite granodiorite that is approximately 2.5 miles wide and 4.5 miles long (Patton and others, 1977). Patton and others (1977) correlate the granodiorite with the Dulbatna Mountain pluton, which is dated by K-Ar at 82.3 +/- 3 Ma (biotite) and 89.0+/- 3 Ma (hornblende). The granodiorite intrudes and thermally alters the Lower Cretaceous volcanic and sedimentary country rocks to dark-green hornfels. These rocks consist of volcanic (tuffaceous) graywacke, and andesite and dacite tuff, breccia, and agglomerate. The Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys collected 7 rock samples in a 6-square-mile area along the northern contact of an 11-square-mile granodiorite body south of Dulbatna Mountain (Solie and others, 1993 [Public-Data File 93-18]). The samples included ferricrete in biotite hornfels, quartz-carbonate veins in hornfels, fine-grained sedimentary rock with sparse pyrite, graywacke with sulfide, and unmineralized biotite-hornblende granodiorite. The hornfels and graywacke samples contained up to 43 parts per million (ppm) bismuth, 188 ppm copper, 1,789 ppm manganese, 44 ppm tin, 264 ppm vanadium, and 162 ppm zinc.
Workings: The Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys collected 7 rock samples in a 6-square-mile area along the northern contact of an 11-square-mile granodiorite body south of Dulbatna Mountain (Solie and others, 1993 [Public-Data File 93-18]).
Age: Probably Late Cretaceous, assuming that the locally mineralized hornfels and graywacke reflects emplacement of the Dulbatna Mountain pluton.
Alteration: Thermal metamorphism.

Commodities (Major) - Cu, Zn; (Minor) - Bi, Mn, Sn, V
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Porphyry Cu (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 17), Polymetallic veins (Cox and Sing

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