Mine detail: Kangik River

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.56912, -171.7232

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:The Cretaceous volcanic assemblage is thermally metamorphosed to hornblende hornfels and albite-epidote hornfels facies where it is in contact with granitic rocks but elsewhere it is commonly propylitically altered (Patton and Csejtey, 1980).

References

MRDSA106321
DEP10003563
Reference{Deposit:: Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1971, Preliminary geologic investigations of western St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 684-C, p. C1-C15.}{Deposit:: Csejtey, Bela, Jr., Patton, W.W., Jr., and Miller, T.P., 1971, Cretaceous plutonic rocks of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, a preliminary report: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 750-D, p. D68-D76.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Saint Lawrence quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-465, 1:250,000 scale.}{Deposit:: Patton, W.W., Jr., and Csejtey, Bela, Jr., 1980, Geologic map of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series Map I-1203, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson