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Iron Lode

Prospect, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities Fe
Ore minerals magnetite

Geographic location

Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale JU
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale A-1
Latitude 58.0744
Longitude -134.0266
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Location and accuracy The Iron Lode prospect is at an elevation of approximately 800 feet on the east side of Taku Mountain, 1.2 mile north of Stockade Point. It is in the NW1/4NE1/4 section 7, T. 44 S., R. 70 E. of the Copper River Meridian. The location is accurate within 1/4 mile.

Geologic setting

Geologic description

The Iron Lode prospect is in black phyllite and felsic phyllite that have been intruded by Cretaceous diorite and gabbro (Redman and others, 1989). The deposit was discovered in 1964 and there were active claims until 1974. There are no surface workings (Redman and others, 1989).
Geologic map unit (-134.028346064442, 58.0740696607864)

Production and reserves

Indication of production None

References

References

Redman, E.C., Maas, K.M., Kurtak, J.M., and Miller, L.D., 1991, Section D: Juneau Gold Belt subarea, in U.S. Bureau of Mines, Mineral investigations in the Juneau Mining District, Alaska, 1984-1988: Volume 2 - Detailed mine, prospect, and mineral occurrence descriptions: U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication VOL. 2D, 424 p., 19 sheets.
Reporters J.C. Barnett and L.D. Miller (Juneau, Alaska )
Last report date 12/15/2001