Mine detail: Nukalaska

Previously called 'Honolulu Group'

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Location

Lat / long:

59.50837, -150.66946

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Gold, Sylvanite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Valdez Group
Host type:	Siltstone
Alteration processes:	None reported although Borden and others (1991) report other veins in the Nuka Bay district show carbonization, sulfidization, sericitization, and silicification of the wall rock adjacent to the veins.

References

MRDS	A010574
DEP	10100936
Reference	{Deposit:: Capps, S.R., 1938, Lode mining in the Nuka Bay district, in Smith, P.S., Mineral industry of Alaska in 1936: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 897-A, p. 25-32.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S. 1939, Mineral industry in Alaska in 1937: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 910-A, p. 1-113.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1941, Mineral industry of Alaska in 1939: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 926-A, p. 1-106.}{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., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than minerals fuels and construction materials) in the Seldovia quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 80-87, 47 p.}{Deposit:: Borden, J.C., Goldfarb, R.J., Gent, C.A., Burruss, R.C., and Roushey, B.H., 1992 Geochemistry of lode-gold deposits, Nuka Bay district, southern Kenai Peninsula: Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2041, p. 13-21.}
Reporter	Jeff A. Huber