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Wilson

Prospect, Inactive

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Commodities and mineralogy

Main commodities Cu

Geographic location

Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale SR
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale D-2
Latitude 60.9745
Longitude -147.6398
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Location and accuracy The prospect is at elevation of about 2,300 feet, on the east flank of hill 2152. It is in the NW1/4 section 11, T. 10 N., R. 10 E., of the Seward Meridian. This is location 180 of Tysdal (1978 [MF-880-A]) and location S-120 of Jansons and others (1984). This location is accurate to within a quarter of a mile.

Geologic setting

Geologic description

The prospect is in sandstone of the Orca Group of early Tertiary age (Tysdal, 1978 [MF-880-A]). It consists of a 12-foot-wide shear zone containing a 4-centimeter-wide cupriferous vein. An adit of unknown length was driven on the vein. No other information about this prospect has been made public.
Geologic map unit (-147.641874131517, 60.9739807050998)
Age of mineralization Tertiary or younger; the vein is in sandstone of the Tertiary Orca Group.

Production and reserves

Workings or exploration One adit of unknown length (Tysdal, 1978 [MF-880-A]).
Indication of production None

References

MRDS Number A010560

References

Cobb, E.H., and Tysdal, R.G., 1980, Summaries of data on and list of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Blying Sound and Seward quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-621, 276 p.
Jansons, Uldis, Hoekzema, R.B., Kurtak, J.M., and Fechner, S.A., 1984, Mineral occurrences in the Chugach National Forest, southcentral Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment 5-84, 218 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Tysdal, R.G., 1978, Mines, prospects, and occurrences map of the Seward and Blying Sound quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-880-A, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reporters Jeff A. Huber (Anchorage)
Last report date 2/4/2000