Mine detail: Groundhog Basin

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.51475, -132.06378

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Tin, Lead, Silver
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Cassiterite, Chalcopyrite, Cubanite, Fluorite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Pyroxene, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Gneiss
Associated rock:Coast Range Batholith
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:Deposits associated with formation of pyroxene-epidote-garnet skarn.

References

MRDSA010316
DEP10000272
Reference{Deposit:: Wright, F.E., and Wright, C.W., 1908, The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 347, 210 p.}{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1923, Mineral deposits of the Wrangell district; U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 739, p. 51-75.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-415, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870.}{Deposit:: Brew, D. A., Ovenshine, A. T., Karl, S. M., and Hunt, S. J., 1984, Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg and parts of the Port Alexander and Sumdum 1:250,000 quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-405, 43 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Newberry, R.J., and Brew, D.A., 1989, Epigenetic hydrothermal origin of the Groundhog Basin-Glacier Basin silver-tin-lead-zinc deposits, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1903, p. 113-121.}{Deposit:: Brew, D.A., 1997, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg C-1 quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-156-H, 23 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.}
ReporterD.J. Grybeck, H.C. Berg