Mine detail: Unnamed (on Cape Kumlik)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 56.62931, -157.48245

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Gangue: Barite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Meshik Formation;Meshik Formation;Meshik Formation;Meshik Formation
Host type:Dacite
Associated type:Tonalite
Alteration processes:The rocks exhibit a zoned alteration pattern, with a central potassic core grading outward to quartz-sericite and silicification, and to peripheral propylitization.

References

MRDSA012442
DEP10001665
Reference{Deposit:: Yount, M.E., Cooley, E.F., and *eary, R.M., 1978, Sample location map, analytical data, and statistical summary of analyses of rock samples, Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-557, l sheet, scale l:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cox, D.P., Detra, D.E., and Detterman, R.L., 1981, Mineral resource maps of the Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF- 1053-K, 2 map sheets, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Detterman, R.L., Miller, T.P., Yount, M.E., and Wilson, F.H.,1981, Geologic map the Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles Alaska: U.S. Geologic Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I- 1229, 1 map sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterS.H. Pilcher