Mine detail: Bearhole Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 60.98287, -142.50073

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Gangue: Feldspar, Graphite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Light color may indicate oxidation.

References

DEP10307241
Reference{Deposit:: Brabb, E.E., and Miller, D.J., 1962, Reconnaissance traverse across the eastern Chugach Mountains, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-341, scale 1:96,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Bering Glacier quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-373, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bering Glacier, Icy Bay, Middleton Island, and Yakutat quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1246, 41 p.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Plafker, George, 1982, Paleogene metamorphism of an accretionary flysch terrane, eastern Gulf of Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 1280-1290.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson