Mine detail: Mountain View: Fish Creek nos. 1, 2, and 3

Previously called 'SkookumGray CopperRuby Silver'

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Location

Lat / long: 55.98477, -130.05075

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, Tungsten, Zinc
Ore: Anglesite, Azurite, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Freibergite, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Magnetite, Malachite, Marcasite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Silver, Sphalerite
Gangue: Ankerite, Calcite, Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Alteration processes:Oxidation and supergene enrichment of some copper, silver, lead, and uranium minerals.

References

MRDSA012286
DEP10308879
Reference{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:: West, W.S., and Benson, P.D., 1955, Investigations for radioactive deposits in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1024-B, p. 25-57.}{Deposit:: Byers, F.M., and Sainsbury, C.L., 1956, Tungsten deposits of the Hyder district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1024-F, p. 123-140.}{Deposit:: Elliott, R.L., Berg, H.C., and Karl, Susan, 1978, map and table describing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report, 78-73-B,17 p., scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Elliott, R.L., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1053, 154 p.}{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1988, Geologic map of the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Series Map MF-1807,27 p., scale 1:250,000.}{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.}
ReporterH.C. Berg