Mine detail: Pika Canyon

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.82976, -141.41264

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Diorite
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:The alteration at Pika Canyon is patchy and somewhat irregular, but generally occurs in somewhat concentric zones of potassic, phyllic, and propylitic alteration (Gill, 1977, p. 86).

References

MRDSA012532
DEP10001748
Reference{Deposit:: Singer, D.A., Csejtey, Bela, Jr., and Miller, R.J., 1978, Map and discussion of the metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral resources of the Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 78-588-Q, 33 p., 1 plate, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Eberlein, G.D., Chapman, R.M., Foster, H.L., and Gassaway, J.S., 1977, Map and table describing known metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-168-D, 132 p., 1 map, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Gill, R., 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of the southwest quarter of the Tanacross D-1 quadrangle, Alaska: Golden, Colorado School of Mines, M.Sc. thesis, 129 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Eberlein, G.D., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Big Delta and Tanacross quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1086, 77 p.}
ReporterC.E. Cameron