Deposit ID | 10000154 |
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MRDS ID | A010189 |
Record type | Site |
Current site name | Double Anchor |
Alternate or previous names | Alaska State Mines Extension |
Related records | 10282434 |
Geographic coordinates: | -130.25982, 56.06366 (WGS84) |
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Relative position | The Double Anchor prospect is in Section 16 at an elevation of about 4100 feet near the top of a south-facing mountainside overlooking Texas Lake, about 0.7 mile south of the lake (Berg and others, 1977, p. 79; Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 11, loc. 30). |
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Country | State |
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United States | Alaska |
Commodity | Importance |
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Silver | Primary |
Gold | Primary |
Copper | Primary |
Lead | Primary |
Zinc | Primary |
Copper | Secondary |
Materials | Type of material |
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Chalcopyrite | Ore |
Galena | Ore |
Pyrite | Ore |
Sphalerite | Ore |
Quartz | Gangue |
Model code | 85 |
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USGS model code | 22c |
Deposit model name | Polymetallic veins |
Mark3 model number | 46 |
Host or associated | Host |
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Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone |
(1) | -130.25982, 56.06366 |
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Development status | Prospect |
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Commodity type | Metallic |
District name | Hyder |
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Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
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USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A010189 | |
USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | BC030 |
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.
Smith, J.G., 1977, Geology of the Ketchikan D-1 and Bradfield Canal A-1 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1425, 49 p.
Berg, H.C., Elliott, R.L., Smith, J.G., Pittman, T.L., and Kimball, A. L., 1977, Mineral resources of the Granite Fiords wilderness study area, Alaska, with a section on aeromagnetic data by Andrew Griscom: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1403, 151 p.
Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.
Alldrick, D.J., 1993, Geology and metallogeny of the Stewart mining camp, northwestern British Columbia: British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources Bulletin 85, 105 p., 2 plates.
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.
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | Model Name = Polymetallic veins |
Deposit | Other Comments = Four claims were recorded in 1923; property was restaked in 1958 as part of the Alaska State Mines Extension claim group of 19 lode and 2 placer claims. The claims were inactive in 1973 (Berg and others, 1977, p. 76). |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 17-MAY-1998 | H. C. Berg | U.S. Geological Survey |