Mine detail: Hyder Skookum

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Location: Bradfield Canal County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 56.01077, -130.03775
dep_id: 10308778
mrds_id: A010235
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect
ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
gangue: Calcite, Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: Greenstone country rock and fragments of country rocks in breccias are partly replaced by sulfides.
Reporter: H. C. Berg
References:
  • Deposit:: Buddington, A.F., 1929, Geology of Hyder and vicinity, southeastern Alaska, with a reconnaissance of Chickamin River: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 807, 124 p.
  • 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:: Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.
  • 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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