Unnamed Occurrences (ARDF - KC145), Blunt Mountain, Annette Island, Ketchikan Mining District, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
55° 9' 3'' North , 131° 21' 54'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
KΓΆppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Metlakatla | 1,405 (2017) | 13.6km |
| Saxman | 417 (2017) | 23.7km |
| Ketchikan | 8,197 (2017) | 27.8km |
Mindat Locality ID:
201993
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:201993:5
GUID (UUID V4):
39311abe-e702-4f8e-bc64-cac994d2e5d5
Location: This site represents five occurrences northeast of Blunt Mountain. The occurrences are in sections 34 and 35, T. 77 S., R. 93 E., of the Copper River Meridian, and range from about 400 feet in elevation to sealevel, and about 1.2-1.7 miles northeast of the highest point on Blunt Mountain . The coordinates are for the approximate center of the approximately half-mile-square area that contains these occurrences. The site corresponds to locs. 8 and 9 in Berg (1972 [I 684]), loc. 142 in Elliott and others (1978), and locs. 27a-b and 28a-c in Karl (1992). The location is accurate within 0.1 mile.
Geology: The country rocks in the area of these occurrences are recrystallized, Upper Triassic conglomerate and overlying rhyolite and felsic tuff (Berg, 1972). The rocks are complexly folded and faulted, and were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist-grade phyllite and semischist in Late Cretaceous time. The deposits consist of quartz fissure veins up to 30 feet thick and 100 feet long that contain clots of pyrite, galena, and chalcopyrite; and of sheared metarhyolite containing sparsely disseminated sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and galena (Berg, 1972; Karl, 1992). Variously mineralized samples of veins and country rocks contained up to 0.34 ppm Au, 2.5 ppm Ag, and 0.5% Cu (Karl, 1992, locs. 27, 28) . Soil samples contained as much as 0.27 ppm Au, and detectable Ag.
Workings: Variously mineralized samples of veins and country rocks contained up to 0.34 ppm Au, 2.5 ppm Ag, and 0.5% Cu (Karl, 1992, locs. 27, 28) . Soil samples contained as much as 0.27 ppm Au, and detectable Ag.
Age: The fissure veins probably are Late Cretaceous.
Commodities (Major) - Au, Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| β Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| β Galena Formula: PbS |
| β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
| β Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
| β Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| β | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| β | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| β | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | β Galena | PbS |
| S | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| S | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | β Sphalerite | ZnS |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | β Galena | PbS |
Other Databases
| Link to USGS - Alaska: | KC145 |
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