Mine detail: Christmas and Enterprise (Whitney claims, Lemesurier Island)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 58.25778, -136.099

Resource(M)

Primary: Molybdenum
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Marble
Associated type:Diorite
Alteration processes:Development of hornfels and tactite.

References

MRDSA013192
DEP10002288
Reference{Deposit:: Knopf, Adolph, 1912, The Sitka mining district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 504, 32 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1918, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1916: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662, 469 p.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1919, Alask* mineral supplies: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 666, p 89-102.}{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., 1921, The future of Alaska mining, in Martin G.C. and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1917: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 714, p. 5-57.}{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1926, Mineral investigations in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 783, p. 41-62.}{Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., and Chapin, Theodore, 1929, Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 800, 398 p.}{Deposit:: Kaufman, A., 1958, Southeastern Alask* Mineral industry: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7844, 37 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources of the Mount Fairweather quadrangle, AK: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Study Map MF-436, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterC.C. Hawley