Mine detail: Unnamed (in Glacier Basin)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.47975, -132.03877

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Fluorite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Granulite
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:Deposits associated with development of pyroxene-epidote-garnet skarn.

References

MRDSA010329
DEP10000286
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:: 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, 53 p.}{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:: 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 B-1 quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-156-C, 20 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.}
ReporterD.J. Grybeck, H.C. Berg