Mine detail: Timberline

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.18769, -147.40387

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Gold, Silver
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Diorite
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:The quartz veins are associated with chloritization of the adjacent diorite.

References

MRDSA011335
DEP10000702
Reference{Deposit:: Ross, C.P., 1933, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 849, p. 289-467.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1934, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1933: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 864-A, p. 1-94.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1936, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1934: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 868-A, p. 1-91.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1937, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1935: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 880-A, p. 1-95.}{Deposit:: Tuck, Ralph, 1938, The Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-B, p. 109-131.}{Deposit:: Smith, T.E., 1971, Geology, economic geochemistry, and placer gold resources of the western Clearwater Mountains, east-central Alaska: Reno, University of Nevada, Ph.D. dissertation, 440 p.}{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.}
ReporterD.L. Stevens