Mine detail: Naginak Cove

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

53.6691, -166.83238

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Chlorite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:

Quartz-sericite-pyrite and weak propylitic (pyrite-chlorite +/- epidote) alteration around quartz veins. Leaching is slight to moderate.

References

MRDS	A106023
DEP	10003281
Reference	{Deposit:: Drewes, Harold, Fraser, G.D., Snyder, G.L., and Barnett, H.F., Jr., 1961, Geology of Unalaska Island and adjacent insular shelf, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-S, p. 583-676.}{Deposit:: Christie, J.S., 1974, Aleut-Quintana-Duval 1974 joint venture, final report: Unpublished Quintana Minerals Corporation report, 24 p., 3 appendices, 2 maps. (Report held by the Aleut Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska.)}
Reporter	F.H. Wilson, Damon Bickerstaff