Banzer Prospect, Copper River Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Banzer Prospect	Prospect
Copper River Mining District	Mining District
Valdez-Cordova Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Crowe and others (1992; 1993) and Sainsbury (1993) discuss the genesis of the volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in this area. Chugach Alaska Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska has control of these lands.
Location: The Banzer prospect is at an elevation of less than 100 feet, about 0.75 mile northeast of Graveyard Point at the mouth of Landlocked Bay. It is in the NW1/4 sec. 19, T. 12 S., R. 7 W., of the Copper River Meridian. The location of the site is accurate to within 2000 ft. This site is loc. C- 67 in Jansons and others (1964) and loc. 17 in Cobb (1972: MF-392).
Geology: The Banzer prospect consists of sulfide-bearing quartz-calcite veins and of irregular clumps and stringers of sulfides in mafic volcanic rocks of the Tertiary Orca Group (Nelson and others, 1985; Cobb, 1979: OF 79-973). Sulfides reportedly include chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and pyrrhotite. Capps and Johnson (1915) reported that there were two shafts and more than 200 feet of stripping completed by 1912. Assays of ore yielded values of 2.42 oz. Au/ton. The prospect could not be located in the early 1980s but assays of two grab samples of float from the general area of the prospect contained 0.08 ppm to 0.22 ppm Au, 0.1 ppm to 6.9 ppm Ag, and 22 ppm to 0.24% Cu (Jansons and others, 1984).
Workings: Capps and Johnson (1915) reported that there were two shafts and more than 200 feet of stripping completed by 1912. Assays of ore yielded values of 2.42 oz. Au/ton. The prospect could not be located in the early 1980s but assays of two grab samples of float from the general area of the prospect contained 0.08 ppm to 0.22 ppm Au, 0.1 ppm to 6.9 ppm Ag, and 22 ppm to 0.24% Cu (Jansons and others, 1984).
Age: Probably Tertiary based on the age of the host rock.

Commodities (Major) - Au,Cu, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Cyprus massive sulfide (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 24a)

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