Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - TL056; on the Yentna Glacier), Yentna Mining District, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USAi

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Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - TL056; on the Yentna Glacier)	- not defined -
Yentna Mining District	Mining District
Matanuska-Susitna Borough	Borough
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This site is within Denali National Park and Preserve.
Location: Reed and others (1978, locality 28) show the location of mineralized cobbles in moraine along the west limit of the Yentna Glacier in the northeast quarter of Section 34, T. 31 N, R. 13 W., of the Seward Meridian within Denali National Park and Preserve. This site is located approximately two and a half miles north-northeast of TL057.
Geology: Granodiorite cobbles with fractures containing molybdenite, pyrite and minor chalcopyrite found at this site on the Yentna Glacier moraine are probably derived from the middle Tertiary (38 m.y.) Foraker pluton (Reed and others, 1978; Reed and Nelson, 1980). Minor malachite staining in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks is noted near the pluton contact. Further information that supports the Foraker pluton as the source of the float is anomalous copper (300 to 700 ppm) in a stream sediment and glacial debris sample taken from a site on the Yentna Glacier which drains the Foraker pluton (Curtin, Karlson, O'Leary, Day, and McDougal,1978). Use of a porphyry for this occurrence is not to suggest that a cobble with mineralized fractures is in itself a porphyry deposit. Instead, its possible affiliation with the Mt. Foraker pluton suggests that these veins could be a distal feature related to a concealed porphyry system. Not enough data exists to quantify this determination (Reed and others, 1978). This site is located approximately two and a half miles north-northeast of TL057 on the Yentna Glacier moraine.
Workings: Reconnaissance mapping and rock sampling are all that have been done here (Reed and Nelson, 1980). Minor malachite staining in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks is noted near the pluton contact. Further information that supports the Foraker pluton as the source of the float is anomalous copper (300 to 700 ppm) in a stream sediment and glacial debris sample taken from a site on the Yentna Glacier which drains the Foraker pluton (Curtin, Karlson, O'Leary, Day, and McDougal,1978).
Age: Middle Tertiary; mineralization is interpreted to be related to the 38 m.y. Foraker pluton (Reed and Nelson, 1980).

Commodities (Major) - Cu, Mo
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Possibly related to Porphyry Cu-Mo (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 21a) or Porphyr

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