Albert Johnson Prospect, Chistochina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Albert Johnson Prospect	Prospect
Chistochina Mining District	Mining District
Valdez-Cordova Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

This prospect is within the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
Location: This prospect is located east of Deception Creek on the north side of Elliott Creek; it is at an elevation of about 4,100 feet in the NW1/4 section 34, T. 2 S., R. 7 E., of the Copper River Meridian. This prospect is approximately located, perhaps to within one-half mile. It is included in locality 64 of Cobb and Matson (1972) and locality 54 of Winkler and others (1981 [OFR 80-892-B]). Moffit and Mertie (1923) show this prospect as locality 19 on their plate 3. Cobb (1979 [OFR 79-1241]) incuded it under the name 'Elliot Cr.'.
Geology: Bornite, chalcopyrite, and some native copper occur in small, sheeted veins and replacement deposits in fractured Triassic Nikolai Greenstone (Moffit, 1918, p. 156-157). By 1916, the deposit had been explored by two adits, one 1,076 feet long, and smaller cross cuts. The gangue minerals are commonly quartz, calcite and epidote. The Nikolai Greenstone and overlying Chitistone Limestone are deformed into a large, asymmetric anticline with its axis approximately parallel to Elliot Creek. The copper mineralization is believed to be related to the regional mineralizing event that produced the rich Kennecott copper deposits in the McCarthy quadrangle (MacKevett and others, 1997).
Workings: By 1916, the deposit had been explored by two adits, one 1,076 feet long, and smaller cross cuts (Moffit, 1918).
Age: The copper mineralization is probably related to the mineralizing event that produced the rich Kennecott copper deposits in the McCarthy quadrangle to the east (MacKevett and others, 1997). This event is interpreted to have accompanied Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous deformation and metamorphism (MacKevett and others 1997, p. 88).

Commodities (Major) - Cu; (Minor) - Ag
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Thin veins, impregnations, and fracture fillings in greenstone; probably relate

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