Mine detail: Margerie

Previously called 'Margarie Glacier'

Location:	Skagway County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long:	59.00972, -137.09213
dep_id:	10309002
mrds_id:	A013114
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten
Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect
ore:	Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
gangue:	Quartz
model:	{53: Porphyry Cu}{54: Porphyry Cu (North America)}
alteration:	Plagioclase has been subjected to moderate sericitization and K-spar alteration, and biotite has been moderately chloritized (Brew and others, 1978).
Reporter:	T.C. Crafford
References:	Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Brew, D.A., Hawley, C.C., Huff, L.C., and Smith, J.G., 1971, Mineral resources of Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 632, 90 p., 12 plates, scale 1:250,000. Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Skagway quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-424, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. Deposit:: Anthony, L.M., 1977, unpublished maps and notes on investigations in Glacier Bay, 1958-1960: (Unpublished material available at the Juneau Mineral Information Center, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Juneau, Alaska). Deposit:: Brew, D.A., Johnson, B.R., Grybeck, D., Griscom, A., Barnes, D.F., Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, 670 p. Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1981, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral occurrences in the Skagway quadrangle, Alaska, Supplement to Open-File Report 78-316, Part A in Summaries of data to January 1, 1980: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-82-A, 11 p. Deposit:: Berg, H.C., 1984, Regional geologic summary, metallogenesis, and mineral resources of southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 84-572, 298 p., 1 plate, scale approx. 1:600,000. Deposit:: Nokleberg, W.J., Bundtzen, T.K., Berg, H.C., Brew, D.A., Grybeck, D.J., Robinson, M.S., Smith, T.E., and Yeend, W., 1987, Significant metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1786, 104 p. Deposit:: Still, J.C., 1991, Bureau of Mines mineral investigations in the Juneau mining district, Alaska, 1984 - 1988, v. 2, Detailed mine, prospect, and mineral occurrence descriptions, section B, Glacier Bay subarea: U.S. Bureau of Mines of Mines Special Publication, 69 p.