Mine detail: Contact Gulch

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.49357, -142.31247

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Bornite, Malachite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Greenstone
Associated rock:Nikolai Greenstone
Associated type:Greenstone

References

MRDSA011715
DEP10001038
Reference{Deposit:: Moffit, F.H., and Maddren, A.G., 1908, The mineral resources of the Kotsina and Chitina valleys, Copper River region: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 345, p. 127-175.}{Deposit:: Moffit, F.H., and Maddren, A.G., 1909, Mineral resources of the Kotsina-Chitina region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 374, 103 p.}{Deposit:: Miller, D.J., 1946, Copper deposits of the Nizina district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 947F, p. 93-120.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Smith, J.G., 1972, Geologic map of the McCarthy B-4 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-943, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterLeonard, K.R., Richter, D.H., Elliott, R.L.