Mine detail: Unnamed (west head of Hugh Miller Glacier)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 58.78472, -136.7671

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Gangue: Epidote, Garnet

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Marble
Associated type:Granite
Alteration processes:Marble has been converted to pyritic garnet-epidote skarn.

References

MRDSA013163
DEP10002260
Reference{Deposit:: Brew, D.A., Johnson, B.R., Grybeck, D., Griscom, A., Barnes, D.F., Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, 670 p.}{Deposit:: Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources, in Brew, D. A., and others, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument wilderness study area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, p. C1-C375.}
ReporterC.C. Hawley