Mine detail: Ronan Copper

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Location: Bradfield Canal County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 56.00077, -130.05075
dep_id: 10308523
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: Volcanic hostrock is impregnated with sulfide minerals.
Reporter: H. C. Berg
References:
  • Deposit:: Smith, J.G., 1973, A Tertiary lamprophyre dike province in southeastern Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 10, p. 408-420.
  • Deposit:: Smith, J.G., 1977, Geology of the Ketchikan D-1 and Bradfield Canal A-1 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1425, 49 p.
  • Deposit:: Alldrick, D.J., 1993, Geology and metallogeny of the Stewart mining camp, northwestern British Columbia: British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources Bulletin 85, 105 p., 2 plates.
  • Deposit:: Maas, K.M., Bittenbender, P E., and Still, J.C., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 11-95, 606 p.
  • Deposit:: Koch, R.D., 1996, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-A, 35 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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