Mine detail: Edelweiss

Previously called 'Marmot group'

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Location

Lat / long: 56.02588, -130.35565

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold, Lead
Ore: Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Hazelton Group
Host type:Siltstone
Associated rock:Hazelton Group;Hazelton Group;Hazelton Group
Associated type:Argillite
Alteration processes:Local intense iron staining.

References

MRDSA010200
DEP10000164
Reference{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1929, Geology of Hyder and vicinity, southeastern Alaska, with a reconnaissance of Chickamin River: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 807, 124 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., Elliott, R.L., Smith, J.G., Pittman, T.L., and Kimball, A. L., 1977, Mineral resources of the Granite Fiords wilderness study area, Alaska, with a section on aeromagnetic data by Andrew Griscom: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1403, 151 p.}{Deposit:: Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Koch, R.D., 1996, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-A, 35 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterH. C. Berg