Mine detail: Unnamed (northeast of Hogan Hill)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 62.67965, -145.45267

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Diorite
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:K-feldspar and propylitic (chlorite) alteration of granodiorite adjacent to mineralized fractures (Rose and Saunders, 1965).

References

MRDSA011835
DEP10001142
Reference{Deposit:: Rose, A.W., and Saunders, R.H., 1965, Geology and geochemical investigations near Paxson, northern Copper River basin, Alaska: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Geological Report 13, 35 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., 1974, Mineral resources of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline corridor: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8626, 24 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1247, 36 p.}{Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., and others, 1994, Metallogeny and major mineral deposits of Alaska and Metallogenic map of significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska, in Plafker, G. and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America: The Geology of North America, v. G1, p. 855-904 and v. G1, Plate 11, scale 1:2,500,000.}
ReporterC.C. Hawley, W.J. Nokleberg, W.T. Ellis