Boston Ridge Prospect, Hughes Mining District, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Boston Ridge Prospect | Prospect |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
66° 13' 45'' North , 155° 48' 10'' West
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Mindat Locality ID:
196613
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:196613:1
GUID (UUID V4):
e3e455a7-fb28-46a5-bfa6-325f57871f58
Location: Boston Ridge, which is not named on the A-6 topographic map, is on the eastern margin of the Zane Hills between Clear and Aloha Creeks. The Boston Ridge prospect is along the top of the ridge at an elevation of about 1,650 feet, in the NW1/4 of section 36, T. 10 N., R. 14 E. of the Kateel River Meridian. The location is accurate within one-quarter mile.
Geology: This prospect consists of altered bostonite dikes that cut feldspar porphyry; the dikes contain allanite, probably betafite (a uraniferous niobate mineral), and abundant magnetite. Samples of the bostonite contain up to 400 ppm uranium and 550 ppm thorium (Miller and Elliot, 1977). Barker (1991) investigated this area to evaluate reports that the intrusive rocks contain as much as 1.51% rare earth elements (REE). He describes the rocks as an intrusive complex of small stocks and dikes of syenite and monzonite that cover an area about 2000 feet in diameter. These plutons intrude Cretaceous andesite. The monzonite stocks form the center of the complex and vary from aphanitic feldspar porphyry to amphibole-rich hornblende porphyry. Syenitic and/or trachytic intrusive rocks occur as xenoliths and as dikes cross-cutting the monzonitic rocks. Tourmaline and magnetite occur on fractures in the monzonite and syenite. The syenite also contains minor purple fluorite. Chip samples of the most radioactive rocks contain a similar content of uranium and thorium as those reported by Miller and Elliot (1977). However, these samples failed to confirm the reported high values of REE, they contain near-normal background levels of lanthanum, cerium, and yttrium.
Workings: Only surface sampling.
Age: The intrusive complex probably is an apophysis of the Zane Hills pluton which is Cretaceous based on a K-Ar date of 81 Ma.
Alteration: The bostonite dikes are described as altered, but details of the alteration are not given.
Commodities (Major) - REE, Th, U
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Felsic plutonic U-REE (Nokleberg and others, 1987)
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2 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ 'Allanite Group' Formula: (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 |
ⓘ Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
ⓘ 'Pyrochlore Supergroup' Formula: A2-mD2X6-wZ1-n |
ⓘ 'Pyrochlore Supergroup var. Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)' Formula: (Ca,Na,U)2(Ti, Nb,Ta)2O6Z(OH) |
ⓘ 'Tourmaline' Formula: AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 3 - Halides | |||
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ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
Unclassified | |||
ⓘ | 'Pyrochlore Supergroup var. Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)' | - | (Ca,Na,U)2(Ti, Nb,Ta)2O6Z(OH) |
ⓘ | 'Tourmaline' | - | AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z |
ⓘ | 'Pyrochlore Supergroup' | - | A2-mD2X6-wZ1-n |
ⓘ | 'Allanite Group' | - | (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
List of minerals for each chemical element
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