Mine detail: Womens Bay

Previously called 'Shakmanof'

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Location

Lat / long: 57.90942, -152.61246

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Diorite
Alteration processes:Sericite and muscovite alteration in granodiorite wallrock.

References

MRDSA015104
DEP10002663
Reference{Deposit:: Roehm, J.C., 1936, Preliminary report of Ouzinkie Group, Kodiak Mining District, Kodiak Island, Alaska: Alaska Territorial Department of Mines, Prospect Evaluation 131-2, 4 p. 1 map sheet, scale 1 inch=100 feet.}{Deposit:: Capps, S.R., 1937, Kodiak and adjacent islands, Alaska, in Smith, P.S. and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1934: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 880, p. 111-184, 1 map sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: Rose, A.W., and Richter, D.H., 1967, Geology and stream sediment geochemistry of Anton Larsen Bay and vicinity, Kodiak Island, Alaska: State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines and Minerals, Geologic Report 31, 10 p., 1 map sheet, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resource map of Kodiak quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-460, 1 map sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: McGee, D.L., 1972, Kodiak Island and vicinity, Alaska, geology and mineral resources: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 31, 7 p., 1 map sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences in the Afognak, Karluk, Kodiak, and Trinity Islands quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-860, 49 p.}
ReporterS.H. Pilcher