Unnamed Prospects (ARDF - PE064; near Round Point), Ketchikan District, Wrangell-Petersburg Borough, Alaska, USA
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Geology: See PE063 for description of a prospect within this claim block. Recent mapping by the USGS (Sue Karl, oral communication, 1998) indicates that much of this block of claims consists of Triassic Hyd Group rocks that host the volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the Duncan-Zarembo belt defined by Berg and Grybeck (1980), and Berg (1981).
Workings: Block of more than 600 claims staked in the late 1970's and active through at least 1981 (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980). The 1995, Alaska Department of Natural Resources Kardex claim data base shows that at least a few claims were still active.
Age: Triassic.
Production: None
Reserves: None
Commodities (Major) - Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Kuroko volcanogenic massive-sulfide deposit (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 28a);
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References
Grybeck, D.J., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.