Mine detail: Unnamed

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.04671, -130.39482

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Siltstone
Alteration processes:Graywacke hostrock is conspicuously iron stained.

References

MRDSA010205
DEP10000170
Reference{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:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-922, 98 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.}
ReporterH. C. Berg