Taylor Mountain

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1650

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Taylor Mountain

• Parent Project:

  Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)

• Status:

  Active

• Description:

  Geologic mapping of the Taylor Mountain area covering the Tanacross D-3 and Eagle A3, and parts of Tanacross D-2 and Eagle A-4 quadrangles. The project has several nick names, Goldfish, Taylor Mountains, Northweast Tanacross. USGS grant no. number: G21AC10326 for Earth MRI GM (FFY2021). The field area for the Taylor Mountain project is within a 50-mile radius of Chicken, Alaska. The project area is of current and historic interest for potential mineral resource development, including quartz vein Au mineralization, placer Au deposits, granite-hosted tin mineralization, and intrusion related Cu-Au deposits. Prospects in the area include Tweeden, Liliwig, and others. Much of the field area was mapped at 1:250,000 scale by the USGS in the 1960s (Foster, 1970; 1972). The purpose of this project is to produce more accurate and modern geologic maps and supporting datasets that will promote mineral resource exploration in eastern Interior Alaska.

• Project Date(s):

  2021 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Twelker, Evan

• DGGS section:

  Mineral Resources

• Project Participants:

  Rainer J. Newberry, Evan Twelker, Steve S. Masterman, Alicja Wypych, Travis J. Naibert, W. Chris Wyatt, Michelle M. Gavel, Alec D. Wildland, Sean P. Regan, Dylan F. Avirett, Angie K. Hubbard, Michael L. Barrera

• Stations/Samples:

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Publications

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RDF 2023-23

Naibert, T.J., Heizler, M.T., Newberry, R.J., Twelker, Evan, and Wypych, Alicja, 2023, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology data from the Tanacross and Eagle quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2023-23, 19 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31085

PIR 2023-2

Gavel, M.M., Regan, S.P., Holland, Mark, Wildland, A.D., Wypych, Alicja, Naibert, T.J., and Twelker, Evan, 2023, U-Pb zircon geochronology of bedrock samples collected in the Eagle and Tanacross quadrangles, eastern Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2023-2, 38 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31013

RDF 2022-4

Wypych, Alicja, Gavel, M.M., Naibert, T.J., Avirett, D.F., Barrera, M.L., Hubbard, A.K., Newberry, R.J., Regan, S.P., Twelker, Evan, Wildland, A.D., and Wyatt, W.C., 2022, Geochemical data from samples collected in 2021 for the Taylor Mountain project, Tanacross and Eagle quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2022-4, 3 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30843

RDF 2022-2

Gavel, M.M., Wypych, Alicja, Naibert, T.J., Avirett, D.F., Barrera, M.L., Hubbard, A.K., Newberry, R.J., Regan, S.P., Twelker, Evan, Wildland, A.D., and Wyatt, W.C., 2022, Field station locations and magnetic susceptibility data collected in 2021 for the Taylor Mountain project, Tanacross and Eagle quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2022-2, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30837

Posters and Presentations

Naibert, T.J. and others, 2022

Naibert, T.J., Wypych, Alicja, Twelker, Evan, Gavel, M.M., Wildland, A.D., Newberry, R.J., Szumigala, D.J., Barrera, M.L., and Fessenden, S.N., 2022, Updates on DGGS geologic mapping efforts in eastern Interior Alaska (presentation): Alaska Miners Association annual convention, Anchorage, Alaska, November 8, 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 27 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30910

Emond, A.M. and Twelker, Evan, 2022

Emond, A.M., and Twelker, Evan, 2022, DGGS's completed Yukon-Tanana Upland Earth MRI airborne geophysics program and CY 2023 Mag, Rad, and EM acquisition plans (presentation): Alaska Miners Association Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, November 8-10, 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 31 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30911