Novatney Prospect, Smugglers Creek, Cleveland Peninsula, Ketchikan Mining District, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
55° 37' 16'' North , 132° 0' 25'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Ketchikan | 8,197 (2017) | 38.4km |
| Saxman | 417 (2017) | 42.5km |
| Metlakatla | 1,405 (2017) | 61.2km |
Mindat Locality ID:
199188
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:199188:1
GUID (UUID V4):
bab044df-57fe-4d96-9c4c-3108d8de83a1
Location: The Novatney prospect is about 1.5 miles north of the mouth of Smugglers Creek and about 0.3 mile east of hill 1761. It is about 0.4 mile south-southwest of the center of section 13, T. 72 S., R. 87 E. The location is accurate.
Geology: As described by Townsend (1952) and Williams (1952), the Novatney prospect consists of small cut about 100 feet long that exposes a mineralized shear zone in greenstone and greenschist. The shear zone is up to 10 feet wide, contains lenses of quartz, strikes northeast, and dips 72SE. Fine-grained pyrite occurs both in the quartz and in schist in the shear zone. In one location, the shear zone which is about 4.5 feet thick, contains pyrite-bearing quartz. Six channel samples 6 to 42 feet long across the mineralized structure contained a trace to 0.04 ounce of gold per ton. The best sample was about 60 percent quartz that contained 0.06 ounce of gold per ton and no silver. Recent sampling produced values up to 2,830 parts per billion gold and up to 4.1 parts per million silver (Bittenbender and others, 1993; Maas and others, 1995) The rocks in the area consist of metamorphosed andesite, basalt, agglomerate, and tuff, and minor flysch, shale, and phyllite. Eberlein and others (1983) and Brew (1996) consider them to be Paleozoic or Mesozoic in age; Gehrels and Berg (1992) tentatively mapped them as Jurassic or Cretaceous.
Workings: The only working is an open cut about 100 feet long.
Age: The quartz veins cut country rocks that may be as young as Cretaceous or as old as Paleozoic.
Alteration: Not specifically mentioned; the brecciated and sheared zone that hosts the auriferous quartz veins is impregnated with pyrite.
Commodities (Major) - Au
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Low-sulfide gold-quartz vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a).
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2 valid minerals.
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
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| Link to USGS - Alaska: | CR076 |
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