Mine detail: Kennicott Mine

Previously called 'ErieJumboBonanzaMother Lode'

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Location

Lat / long: 61.52745, -142.84637

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Enargite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tennantite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Large
Development status: Unknown

Geology

Host rock:Chitistone Limestone (Lower Dolomitic Parts);Chitistone Limestone (Lower Dolomitic Parts)
Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Nikoli Greenstone
Associated type:Greenstone
Alteration processes:Oxidation Of Deposits Which Is Not Related To Present Land Surface.

References

MRDSA010706
DEP10000514
Reference{Deposit:: Bateman, A.M., and McLaughlin, D.H., 1920, Geology of the ore deposits of Kennecott, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 15, no. 1, p. 1-80.}{Deposit:: Miller, D.J., 1946, Copper deposits of the Nizina district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 947F, p. 93-120.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1970, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-5 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-899, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1971, Stratigraphy and general geology of the McCarthy C-5 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1323, 35 p.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773B, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Albert, N.R.D., Barnes, D.F., Case, J.E., Robinson, Keith, and Singer, D.A., 1977, The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 739, 23 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the McCarthy Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-885, 156 p.}{Deposit:: Armstrong, A.K., and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1982, Stratigraphy and diagenetic history of the lower part of the Triassic Chitistone Limestone, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1212-A, 26 p.}
ReporterElliott, R. L., Mosier, Dan, Elliott, R. L. (Nokleberg, Warren J.)