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~etallo~enic Belt Major Mineral Deposits Types. Environment. Tectonic Event.<br />

(Abbreviation) (Significant Mineral Deposits)<br />

Host Unit.<br />

Comments<br />

Seward Peninsula<br />

(sp)<br />

Sn skarn & greisen, Sn granite, porphyry<br />

Mo, polymetallic vein, & o<strong>the</strong>rs.<br />

(Lost River, Eagle Creek, Death Valley)<br />

Continental-margin arc.<br />

Western <strong>Alaska</strong> part <strong>of</strong><br />

Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic-<br />

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Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> back-arc part <strong>of</strong> Okhotsk-<br />

Chukotka continental-margin arc. <strong>East</strong>ern extension <strong>of</strong> <strong>East</strong>crn Asia<br />

metallogenic belt.<br />

Northwestern<br />

Felsic plutonic U.<br />

plutonic belt.<br />

Continental-margin arc.<br />

Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> back-arc part <strong>of</strong> Okhotsk-<br />

Koyukuk Basin (Wheeler Creek, Clear Creek, Zane Hills) Western <strong>Alaska</strong> part <strong>of</strong><br />

Chukotka continental-margin arc. <strong>East</strong>ern extension <strong>of</strong> <strong>East</strong>ern Asia<br />

WWK)<br />

West-Central <strong>Alaska</strong> I Porphyry Cu.<br />

I<br />

Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanicplutonic<br />

belt.<br />

Continental-margin arc.<br />

metallogenic belt.<br />

I Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> Okhotsk-Chukotka<br />

(WCA) (Hogatza) (Indian Mounfain, Purccll Mountain, Zanc Western <strong>Alaska</strong> part <strong>of</strong><br />

continental-margin arc. <strong>East</strong>ern extension <strong>of</strong> <strong>East</strong>crn Asia metallogenic belt<br />

Hills)<br />

Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic-<br />

Manto-rcplaccmcnt dcposit (polymctallic Pn-<br />

I Zn, Au) (Illinois Crcck)<br />

plutonic belt.<br />

Metallogenic Belts Formed in Late Mesozoic <strong>and</strong> Early Cenozoic k uane Continental-Margin Arc. Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Alaska</strong><br />

Kuskokwim<br />

Sn-Cu-Ag greisen, Hg-Sb-Au epi<strong>the</strong>rmal Continental-margin arc.<br />

Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> Kluane continental-margin<br />

Mountains (KMT) vein, Au-As polymetallic vein,<br />

Kuskokwim Mountains<br />

arc.<br />

(Kuskokwim<br />

porphyry Mo, porphyry Cu-Au,<br />

sedimentary <strong>and</strong> volcanic belt.<br />

mineral belt)<br />

porphyry Au, granitoid-related Au.<br />

(McLeod, Fox Hills, Chicken Mountain,<br />

Beaver Mountains, Cirque,<br />

<strong>East</strong>-Central <strong>Alaska</strong>,<br />

Tolstoi,Von Frank Mountain, Donlin<br />

I Creek, Vinasale, Arnold)<br />

I Sn greisen <strong>and</strong> vein, tourmaline-topaz- I Continental-margin arc. I Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> Kluane continental-margin<br />

(younger part) quartz-sulfide greisen, felsic plutonic Yukon-Tanana igneous belt. arc.<br />

(ECA) (Includes U, W skam, porphyry Cu-Mo.<br />

Carmacks belt <strong>of</strong> (Asarco, Casino Ketchem Dome, Lime<br />

porphyry Cu-Mo Peak, Road Metal, Roy Creek, Taurus)<br />

Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Alaska</strong> (SA) Porphyry Cu, porphyry Cu-Au, Continental-margin arc.<br />

Subduction-related granitic plutonism that formed <strong>the</strong> Kluane continental-margin<br />

polymetallic vein, Ag-Au skarn, Cu- <strong>Alaska</strong> Range-Talkeetna<br />

arc.<br />

Au-Ag skam.<br />

(Kijik River, Golden Zone, Nabesna<br />

River).<br />

Mountains igneous belt.<br />

Metallogenic Belts Formed During Early Tertiary Oblique Subduction <strong>of</strong> Kula-<strong>Far</strong>allon Oceanic Ridge Under Margin <strong>of</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>and</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>astern <strong>Alaska</strong><br />

Maclaren (MC) Au quartz vcin.<br />

Extensional.<br />

Oblique subduction <strong>of</strong> Kula-<strong>Far</strong>allon oceanic ridge under margin <strong>of</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn<br />

(Lncky Hill <strong>and</strong> Timberline Creek) Veins in low-grade pall: <strong>of</strong><br />

I Maclaren Glacier metamorphic<br />

-<br />

belt.<br />

Talkeetna Mounta~ns Au quartz vein<br />

Extensional.<br />

<strong>Alaska</strong>.<br />

-<br />

Oblique subduction <strong>of</strong> Kula-<strong>Far</strong>allon oceanic ridge under margln <strong>of</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn<br />

(TM)<br />

(Independence)<br />

Veins in low-grade part <strong>of</strong><br />

I Talkeetna Formation..<br />

<strong>Alaska</strong>.<br />

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