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Pyrite from
Kensington Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kensington Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:583721
Long-form Identifier:1:3:583721:2
GUID (UUID V4):ce09758d-e9cc-4c7e-a76c-88d1ed7e8a22
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Eureka Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Bear Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Kensington mine, Berners Bay Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Mexican Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Northern Belle; Elmira; Yellowjacket; Boston; Troy Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Horrible; Savage Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Johnson; Northern Lights Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Ophir; Hartford; Chilkat; Selkirk; Acropolis Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Comet Mine, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Seward; Thomas Prospect, Juneau Mining District, Juneau, Alaska, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
1)+%#. 5748';  ,WPGCW #NCUMC Alaska Resource Data File Juneau quadrangle Descriptions of the mineral...throughout Alaska. o o o o o o o o Distribution of mineral occurrences in the Juneau 1:250,000-scale...000-scale quadrangle, Alaska This and related reports are accessible through the USGS World Wide Web site...authored by: John C. Barnett and Lance D. Miller Juneau, AK This report is preliminary and has not been...the U.S. Government. OPEN-FILE REPORT 03-456 Alaska Resource Data File JU001 Site name(s): Unnamed
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIEECTOB GEOLOGY OF THE BERBERS BAY REGION ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING................................................. Pyrite..................................................38 Ivanhoe mine.......................................................... 38 Horrible mine..............39 Bear mine. ............................................................ 39 Kensington mine........... 40 Eureka mine. .............................................. ^.......... 42 Comet mine...........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Departmentof Geologyand Geophysics, Universityof Alaska,Fairbanks,Alaska99775-0760 WILLIAM J. PICKTHORN...locatedapproximately125 km inboardof the Gulf of Alaska and about 20 km west of the Coast batholith. Placergold...0361-0128/91/1171/66-1553.00 66 and ore petrographyat the Alaska-Juneau mine, the largestproduceralongthe goldbelt, were...y investigationsindicate that the ore fluids JUNEAU AuBELT:O, H, & SSTUDIES were low-salinity H20-CO2-CH4-N2-H2S...south,includeBernersBay, EagleRiver (YankeeBasin), Juneau(DouglasIsland), Snettisham,and Sumdum (EndicottPeninsula)
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...the ore. Sulfides likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger,...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...in gold-quartz mines in the Meguma Group, that pyrite is the most abundant sulfide in mines California... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills
Report (issue)
systematic investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska by the Geological Survey has yielded a large amount...geologic features of the metalliferous deposits of Alaska, using the results obtained by the many geologists...purely scientific results which have been achieved. Alaska is rich in metallic wealth. Its lode' and placer...The rapid advance of the mining 1 Brooks, A. H., The coal resources of Alaska: Twenty-second Ann. Kept... The Alaska coal fields: Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 314,1907, pp.40-46 Brooks, A. H., Alaska coal and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Formationat the KensingtonandJualinDeposits,BernersBay District, SoutheastAlaska LANCE D. MILLER,* Departmentof...RICHARD A. KIRKHAM EchoBayAlaska,3100 ChannelDrive,Juneau,Alaska99801 Abstract The BernersBaydistrictat...Presentaddress: EchoBayAlaska,3100 ChannelDrive,Juneau, Alaska99801. 0361-0128/95/1677/343-2654.00 343...which to studythe evolution of a mesothermal vein district. The BernersBayminingdistrict(Fig. 1) islocatedat...mesothermalquartz veinsin the Juneaugold belt. Mining activity in the BernersBay districtbeganin the
Report (issue)
MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE KETCHIKAN AND WRANGELL MINING DISTRICTS. By THEODORE CHAPIN. KETCHIKAN DISTRICT...DISTRICT. INTRODUCTION. . Mining operations in the Ketchikan district were conducted on a much larger...quarries of the Vermont Marble Co. at Tokeen, but the district contains large bodies of high-grade marble, whose...known mineral deposits is shown on Plate V. LODE MINING. PRODUCTION. The increase in the production of...RESOURCES OF ALASKA, 1916. Copper, gold, and silver produced in the Ketchikan mining district in 1915 and
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS IN THE JUNEAU, TAKU RIVER, ATLIN, AND PART OF THE SKAGWAY QUADRANGLES, ALASKA BY D. EDWARD WELLS...of Mines, Juneau, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025; Present address 89861 Alaska Park, CA...DEPOSITS IN THE JUNEAU, TAKU RIVER, ATLIN, AND PART OF THE SKAGWAY QUADRANGLES, ALASKA By D. Edward Wells...prospects, mineral occurrences, and mining claims in the Atlin, Juneau, Taku River, and part of the Skagway...groups. The descriptions are in this order: Atlin, Juneau, Skagway, Taku River. The symbol at each site is
Report (issue)
developed, the deposit will be mined by underground mining methods. The deposit is part of lands owned by...placer gold mine operations on the Eureka and Mary's bench depositsin the Koyukuk-Nolan district of northern...northern Alaska. The center nugget weighs 41.35 ounces (1,286 grams) and is unofficially the tenth largest...placer gold mine, 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Cantwell, has been Alaska's largest gold mine for ten...in the world. In 1994 the mine, which has been operated by Cambior Alaska Inc., produced 47,622 ounces
Report (issue)
Division of Mining & Water Management FRONT COVER Top left: From late 199] to 1993 Cambior Alaska Inc. constructed...Phase one channeled the stream around the open-pit mine operations. During the stream diversion the company...quality, stream flow, and fish populations. When the mine closed, Valdez Creek was diverted back to its original...work on Pit A-8 of Valdez Creek gold mine operated by Cambior Alaska Inc. as it appeared in early August...August 1994. From 1984 to 1995 Cambior Alaska and previous operators produced 459,162 ounces (14,279 kilograms)
Report (issue)
Development Division of Mining & Water Management FRONT COVER Top: Ryan Lode Mine gold recovery plant and...investigates a silver prospect in the Chulitna mining district during a DGGS mapping project in July 1997...(left) and Jim Vohden (right) of the Alaska Division of Mining & Water Management, and Bronwen Wang of...on face in the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island west of Juneau, Alaska. Photo by Jan Nauman. GEOLOGY...ip nw si 9" K.H. Clautice + ee J.L. Nauman Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological
Report (issue)
MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. By THEODORE CHAPIN. INTRODUCTION. A considerable advance...advance in both copper and gold lode mining was made in southeastern Alaska in 1915. The development consisted...bodies of gold-bearing ore, in the installation of mining machinery and power-developing plants for its expolitation...region extending from Ketchikan to Berners Bay. Juneau, which has long ranked as an important gold producer...of the Alaska-Gastineau mill and the breaking of ground for the new mill of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in quartz vein and "albitite" intrusion areas per mine level suggest that the ore fluid and dyke magma...significant magmatic volatile input (e.g., Baguio district, Philippines). In addition, as Sillitoe (1989)...levels of the Comstock Lode district, Nevada (1200' level, Con Virginia mine; O'Neil and Silberman, 1974)...Australia ) ; Kolar 2 ( India ) ( b ) Au-Ag-S ( pyrite/pyrrhotile )Z n - P b - C u - H g (e.g., Murchison...(South Afi:ica ): Zimbabwe ~~, ~2 ( c ) Au-Ag-S ( pyrite/pyrrhotite )C u - Z n - P b - M o - W - N i ( u
Report (issue)
LODE MINING AND PROSPECTING ON SEWARD PENINSULA. By J. B. MERTIE, Jr. INTRODUCTION. The lodes of Seward...most part undeveloped. The Big Hurrah mine, in the Solomon district, produced gold from 1903 to 1907 but...been made from the Sliscovich mine, on Manila Creek, in the Nome district, but these were more in the nature...development is still in the stage of prospecting. Lode mining of some of the semiprecious and base metals, however...published later. GOLD. SLISCOVICH. The Sliscovich mine, near the head of Manila Creek, has been described
Report (volume)
GOLD BELT, ALASKA BY ARTHUR C. SPENCER AND A RECONNAISSANCE OF ADMIRALTY ISLAND, ALASKA BY WASHINGTON...PRINTING 1906 OFFICE CONTENTS. THE JUNEAU GOLD BELT, ALASKA, BY ARTHUR C: SPENCER. Page Introduction............................... Topography of the Juneau belt....................................................................................... 6 Juneau map.............................................................. 7 Climate of southeastern Alaska......................................... -^ 7 Timber
Report (issue)
H. MANNING. Director I HE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United States Mine Inspector for Alaska ENGINEERING \Y* WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...MINES H. MANNING. Director THE MINING INDUSTRY IN THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1915... BY SUMNER S. SMITH United Stales Mine Inspector for Alaska WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING 1917 ...prohibits the CONTENTS. Page. Introduction New gold-mining districts Mineral production Placer gold Lode gold
Report (issue)
IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA.1 By GEORGE H. CANFIELD. INTRODUCTION. The streams of Alaska have been important...industrial growth. The success of placer mining in northern and central Alaska has depended primarily on the water...hydraulicking and dredging, and in southeastern Alaska water power has long been used by mines, canneries...water resources of Alaska. Investigations with special reference to placer mining have been made in Seward...parts of southeastern Alaska. In the summer of 1914 Leonard Lundgren, district engineer of the Forest
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 504 THE SITKA MINING DISTRICT ALASKA BY ADOLPH KNOPF WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...Gate mine____:_____________________ Hirst Cove Mining Co__ - _________________________'. _ Other prospects________... The gypsum deposit____________________________ Mine developments___________________________ Market ...Geologic reconnaissance map of the Sitka and Juneau mining districts __________________________________...H. BROOKS. The first attempt at lode gold mining in Alaska was made near Sitka in 1871 but was soon abandoned
Report (issue)
SURVEY Metallogeny and Major Mineral Deposits of Alaska by 1 Thomas K. BundtzenS 7 Henry C. Berg 0"3 ,...endorsement by the U.S.G.S. ' U.S. Geological Survey ^ Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys...unpublished data on metalliferous mineral deposits of Alaska, and on recent and older published articles and... universities, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys... Andersen, Resource Associates of Alaska, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska Roger P. Ashley, U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
LODE MINING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, 1907. By CHAKLES W. WEIGHT. INTRODUCTION. The mining industry in...in southeastern Alaska has not advanced materially during the last year, and the total metal production...factors have affected the mining interests not only of southeastern Alaska, but likewise of many of the...is given of the general geology of southeastern Alaska and the distribution of the ore deposits within...districts and of copper to the south in the Ketchikan district is also noteworthy. Detailed statements of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are widespread within allochthonous terranes of Alaska that are composed dominantly of greenschist-facies...concentrated in south-central and southeastern Alaska; small and generally nonproductive gold-bearing...major placer deposits in interior and northern Alaska. Oreforming fluids in all areas are consistent...hydrothermal activity. Within interior and northern Alaska, latest Paleozoic through Early Cretaceous contractional...possibly related to extension and uplift. In southern Alaska, gold deposits formed during latter stages of Tertiary
Book
Geology of Southeast Alaska Rock and Ice in Motion Geology of Southeast Alaska Rock and Ice in Motion... Stowell University of Alaska Press Fairbanks © 2006 University of Alaska Press P.O. Box 756240 Fairbanks...Data Stowell, Harold Hilton. Geology of southeast Alaska : rock and ice in motion / Harold H. Stowell. p...paper) 1. Geology—Alaska, Southeast. 2. Glaciers—Alaska, Southeast. 3. Plate tectonics—Alaska, Southeast. 4...4. Climate—Alaska, Southeast. I. Title. QE84.S68S76 2006 557.982—dc22 2005027066 All illustrations by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Klipwal Shear Zone (KSZ) at the Klipwal Gold Mine is confined to laminated quartz–carbonate lodes...Johnson No. 326, Canterbury Ct., Alamo, CA 94507, USA Present Address: S. S. Chinnasamy Department of Earth...Canada epidote, feldspar, and carbonates along with pyrite, arsenopyrite, and chalcopyrite±pyrrhotite. An...Peters et al. 1990); the AlaskaJuneau, Treadwell, Kensington mines in the Juneau gold belt in the North...include the Wonder Mine situated in the Bumbeni Shear Zone, the Klipwal Gold Mine (KGM) on the Klipwal
Report (volume)
Center, Box 25286 Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from U.S. Geological Survey, Map...Ave., Box 12 Fairbanks, AK 99701 • ANCHORAGE, Alaska-4230 University Dr., Rm. 101 • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal...the U.S. Geological Survey offices: • FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Building, 101 Twelfth Ave. • ROLLA... Mississippi-Bldg. 3101. Geologic Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1992 CYNTHIA DUSEL-BACON.... . NORTHERN ALASKA Late Holocene Longitudinal and Parabolic Dunes in Northern Alaska: Preliminary Interpretations
Report (volume)
Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska By HENRY C. BERG and EDWARD H. COBB . G E O L O G I C A L S...A n inventory of the mines and )- grosfiects of Alaska and their ' f geologic settings UNITED STATES...acknowledgments--- - - - - - ----- - - - -- - -- 4 Alaska Peninsula region- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -...- - - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - 16 Redoubt district--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...antimony and molybdenum- - - - - - 29 Willow Creek district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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