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Silver Star Prospect, Chistochina District, Valdez-Cordova Borough, Alaska, USA

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The locality is in the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.
Location: This prospect is near the summit of the ridge north of the Kotsina River. It is at an elevation about 5,300 feet, about 700 feet south-southeast of elevation 5629 (Vesna) and 1,000 feet south-southwest of the center of section 35, T. 1 S., R. 8 E. of the Copper River Meridian. This is locality 176 of MacKevett (1976) and locality 2 of MacKevett and others (1978). The location is accurate to within about 100 feet. Cobb and MacKevett (1980) included this prospect under the name 'Silver Star'.
Geology: The deposit at this prospect consists of quartz veins to 30 inches wide that are localized along faults and hanging wall fractures in Triassic Nikolai Greenstone (Moffit and Mertie, 1923; MacKevett, 1976). The veins contain argentiferous tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite, malachite, and azurite. Samples of selected material were reported to assay 25 to 700 ounces of silver per ton and 1 to 32 percent copper (Mertie and Moffit, 1923). The deposits were explored by two adits up to 260 feet long.
Workings: The deposits were explored by two adits up to 260 feet long.
Age: Triassic or younger based on the age of the host rock.
Alteration: Oxidation of copper minerals; iron-staining.

Commodities (Major) - Ag, Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: Undetermined.
Deposit Model: Polymetallic vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

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6 entries listed. 5 valid minerals.

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References

Cobb, E.H., and MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-885, 156 p. MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000. MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Smith, J.G., Jones, D.L., and Winkler, G.R., 1978, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1418, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360. Moffit, F.H., and Mertie, J.B., Jr., 1923, The Kotsina-Kuskulana district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 745, 149 p.

 
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