Mine detail: Ibex

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.07588, -130.18288

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Silver, Zinc
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Argillite
Associated rock:Texas Creek Granodiorite
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:The quartzite hostrock may reflect silicification of pelitic country rock.

References

MRDSA010251
DEP10000214
Reference{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1925, Mineral investigations in southeastern Alasaka: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 773, p. 71-139.}{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1926, Mineral investigations in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783, p. 41-62.}{Deposit:: Smith, J.G., 1977, Geology of the Ketchikan D-1 and Bradfield Canal A-1 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1425, 49 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:: Maas, K.M., Bittenbender, P E., and Still, J.C., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 11-95, 606 p.}{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