Mine detail: Denali Copper

Previously called 'Caribou DomePass Creek'

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Location

Lat / long: 63.13852, -147.14386

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Copper
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Tuff,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate),Andesite
Alteration processes:There is no hydrothermal alteration associated with the sulfide mineralization.

References

MRDSA011307
DEP10000683
Reference{Deposit:: Kaufman, M.A., 1964, Two new occurrences of ore minerals in the Denali area (Healy A-1 and Mt. Hayes B-6): Alaska Territorial Department of Mines Prospect Evaluation 67-4, 5 p.}{Deposit:: Stevens, D.L, 1971, Geology and geochemistry of the Denali Prospect, Clearwater Mountains, Alaska: Fairbanks, University of Alaska, Ph. D. dissertation, 81 p.}{Deposit:: Seraphim, R.H., 1975, Denali-A nonmetamorphosed stratiform sulfide deposit: Economic Geology, vol. 70, p. 949-959.}{Deposit:: Smith, T.E., 1981, Geology of the Clearwater Mountains, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 60, 72 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Eakins, G.R., and Conwell, C.N., 1983, Alaska mineral resources 1981-82: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 1981-82, 153 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:2,500,000.}{Deposit:: Wilson, F.H., Dover, J.H., Bradley, D.C., Weber, F.R., Bundtzen, T.K., and Haeussler, P.J., 1998, Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-133, 17 p., 2 sheetsm, scale 1:500,000.}
ReporterD.L. Stevens