Mine detail: Great Northern Development Company

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Location

Lat / long:

61.62772, -143.8464

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Azurite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Malachite, Molybdenite
Gangue:	Aragonite, Calcite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Quartz, Stilbite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Nikolai Greenstone;
Host type:	Greenstone
Associated type:	Diorite,Greenstone

References

MRDS	A011739
DEP	10001060
Reference	{Deposit:: Van Alstine, R.E., and Black, R.F., 1946, Copper deposits of the Kotsina-Kuskulana district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 947-G, p. 121-141.}{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., 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.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Smith, J.G., Jones, D.L., and Winkler, G.R., 1978, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1418, scale 1:63,360.}
Reporter	Richter, D.H., Leonard, K.R., Elliott, R.L.