Deposit ID | 10000156 |
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MRDS ID | A010192 |
Record type | Site |
Current site name | Chickamin |
Related records | 10136760 |
Geographic coordinates: | -130.2737, 56.07088 (WGS84) |
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Relative position | The Chickamin prospect is in Section 9 at an elevation of about 3000 feet on a precipitous west-facing mountainside overlooking Chickamin Glacier. It is about 1.4 mile north-northeast of Disappearing Lake (Berg and others, 1977, p. 84; Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 11, loc. 27). |
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Country | State |
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United States | Alaska |
Commodity | Importance |
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Copper | Primary |
Lead | Primary |
Zinc | Primary |
Materials | Type of material |
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Chalcopyrite | Ore |
Galena | Ore |
Pyrite | Ore |
Pyrrhotite | Ore |
Tetrahedrite | 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 > Graywacke |
(1) | -130.2737, 56.07088 |
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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 | A010192 | |
USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | BC027 |
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.
Subject category | Comment text |
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Deposit | Model Name = Polymetallic veins |
Deposit | Other Comments = Prospect could not be located 1972-73. Site is in Misty Fiords National Monument. |
Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
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Reporter | 17-MAY-1998 | H. C. Berg | U.S. Geological Survey |