Mine detail: Magnetite Ore Body, Rush and Brown Mine

Previously called 'Alaska Consolidated Copper CoAlaska Gold and Metals Co.Iron Cliff'

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Location: Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 55.62473, -132.58792
dep_id: 10000103
mrds_id: A010127
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Replacement
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Magnetite
gangue: Calcite, Epidote, Garnet, Pyrite
work_type: Surface/Underground
ore_ctrl: Mineralization Follows Tuff-Pluton Contact
Reporter: Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.), Mosier, Dan
hrock_type: Greenstone
Year first produced: 1906
yr_lst_prd: 1923
disc_yr: 1904
References:
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 347, P. 123-125.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 642, P. 86-88.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 714, P. 119-121.
  • Deposit:: USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4.339
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 1090, P. 32, 37, 42-43, 48, 112-116.
  • Deposit:: USGS BULL 1246, P. 165, 168.
  • Deposit:: USGS MF 433.
  • Deposit:: USGS OF 78-869, P. 174-177.
  • Production:: USBM REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4349
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