At this site the rocks consist of amygdaloidal and porphyritic andesites of probable Tertiary or later age. They are cut by diorite dikes or plugs (Christie, 1974). All of the intrusive rocks examined contained pyrite as disseminations and fracture fillings. This occurrence consists of a northern and a southern color anomaly separated by a covered area approximately 1000 feet wide.

In the northern area copper minerals occur along a north-facing sea cliff irregularly for 800 feet. The minerals are mainly malachite and minor chalcopyrite and chalcocite, and are sporadically distributed throughout the area. The minerals are mainly in breccia bodies, up to 60 feet in width, consisting of angular and rotated fragments of quartz-sericite-pyrite in a matrix of comminuted fragments and iron oxides. Malachite is present both in the fragments and matrix. One breccia contains 1 to 2 percent tourmaline. Wall rock around the breccias varies from pyritiferous volcanics to malachite-chalcopyrite-chalcocite-bearing diorite. The quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration grades outward to pervasive propylitization marked by epidote and pyrite.

The southern color anomaly exhibits pervasive propylitic alteration which grades southward to unaltered volcanics over distance of approximately 3000 feet.

Seventeen rock samples collected by the Aleut-Quintana-Duval JV contained up to 159 ppm copper, 0.46 ppm gold, 6 ppm molybdenum, 2.2 ppm silver, and 120 ppm zinc (Christie, 1974).

Christie (1974) conducted reconnaissance geologic mapping and limited sampling. That sampling generally indicated low values of copper and molybdenum and gold values as high as 0.46 ppm and silver values as high 2.2 ppm. Zinc values were moderately anomalous: a number of samples yielded values in the range of 90 to 120 ppm. Although Christie (1974) mentions copper values up to 0.25 percent, his sample data does not support this.