Mine detail: Mertie Lode Prospect

Previously called 'Funter Bay Nickel-Copper Deposit'

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Location

Lat / long:

58.23141, -134.85785

Resource(M)

Primary:	Nickel, Copper
Secondary:	Cobalt
Tertiary:	Silver, Gold
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Pentlandite
Gangue:	Hornblende, Labradorite, Olivine, Pyrite
Orebody form:	PIPE
Discovery year:	1919

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Hornblendite
Associated type:	Gabbro,Norite
Structure:	Gabbro Pipe Crops Out On The Ne Limb Of Funter Bay Anticline, 3 Faults Offset The Gabbro Body, On The Order Of 10-20 Ft Displacements
Tectonic:	Mansfield Sub-Belt, Brew And Ford, Usgs Ofr 85-395, P. 10
Alteration processes:	Quartz-Mica Schist Altered To Ortho Clase-Cordierite Hornfels 50-150 Ft From Contact With Gabbro

References

MRDS	A012087
DEP	10001346
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM RI 3950}{Deposit:: USBM IC 7379, P. 70-71}{Deposit:: ADGGS GC 8, P. 4, 15, 19-20}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 936-0, P. 349-361}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 1155, P. 1-10}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 1223, P. 13, 37-38}{Deposit:: ADGGS SR 33, P. 43}{Deposit:: USGS OFR 85-717, P. 70}{Other Database:: BAG-OFR-85-717-057}
Reporter	Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.)