Description
Geologists from the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) Mineral Resources Section conducted four weeks of helicopter-supported mapping and fieldwork from June 26 through July 24, 2013. The Styx River project in the Lime Hills C-1 Quadrangle was part of the State-funded Airborne Geophysical/Geological Mineral Inventory (AGGMI) program as part of the State's Strategic Minerals Assessment Project, an initiative designed to evaluate Alaska's potential for rare-earth elements, PGEs, and other similarly supply-challenged resources. The Styx River project area has active and ongoing mineral exploration for deposit types including porphyry copper/molybdenum/gold, reduced intrusion-related gold, and polymetallic veins. Lead-zinc skarns, molybdenum-bearing quartz veins, sediment-hosted base-metal, platinum-group-element, and rare-earth-element deposit types are also present. This report provides new, publicly-available geological and geochemical data in the vicinity of known mineral occurrences throughout the project area. Samples were analyzed for a variety of suites of major and trace elements depending on the sample type. The analytical data tables associated with this report are being released in digital format as comma-delimited text (CSV) files.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASCII tabular files | Unknown | CSDGM IMPORT ERROR: No digtinfo/formcont | Open resource |
| Web Resource | Unknown | Open resource |
Tags
- alaska range
- aluminum
- antimony
- arsenic
- barium
- basalt
- base metals
- bedrock
- beryllium
- bismuth
- cadmium
- calcium
- cerium
- cesium
- chalcopyrite
- chlorite
- chromium
- cobalt
- copper
- cretaceous
- critical minerals
- dysprosium
- economic geology
- erbium
- europium
- exploration
- felsic
- fluorine
- gadolinium
- galena
- gallium
- geochemical data
- geochemical surveys
- geochemistry
- geology
- germanium
- gold
- granite
- greisen
- hafnium
- heavy metals
- holmium
- hornfels
- igneous rocks
- iron
- lime hills quadrangle
- lode
- lutetium
- magnesium
- major oxides
- manganese
- mcgrath quadrangle
- mesozoic
- metals
- mineral assessment
- mineral deposit
- mineral localities
- mineral resources
- minor oxides
- molybdenum
- neodymium
- nickel
- niobium
- non-metals
- paleozoic
- palladium
- phosphorus
- platinum
- platinum group elements
- plutons
- potassium
- precious metals
- promethium
- rubidium
- selenium
- silica
- silver
- sodium
- sphalerite
- strategic and critical minerals assessment project
- strategic minerals
- strontium
- sulfides
- sulfur
- talkeetna quadrangle
- tantalum
- tertiary
- thallium
- thorium
- tin
- titanium
- tourmaline
- trace elements
- trace metals
- tungsten
- tyonek quadrangle
- uranium
- vanadium
- volcanic
- zinc
- zirconium