East Marsha Peak Prospect, Wrangel City and Bourough, Alaska, USAi
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East Marsha Peak Prospect | Prospect |
Wrangel City and Bourough | Borough |
Alaska | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
56° 29' 26'' North , 132° 1' 50'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Wrangell | 2,382 (2018) | 21.3km |
Mindat Locality ID:
197329
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:197329:0
GUID (UUID V4):
2e83ae3d-067a-42fd-84aa-980f2d0a64e3
No claims were active as of 2002 according to Still and others.
Location: The East Marsha Peak prospect is about 0.5 mile northeast of Marsha Peak near the edge of the Nelson Glacier. It about 0.3 mile south of the center of section 17, T. 62 S., R. 86 E. The location is accurate. A map of the prospect is Figure 30 of Still and others (2002).
Geology: The rocks in the prospect area are part of a belt of Mesozoic or Paleozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks that have been metamorphosed to Tertiary or Cretaceous schist and gneiss. The belt is about 1 1/2 mile wide and strikes northwest (Brew, 1997; George and Wyckoff, 1973). The metamorphic rocks are bounded on the east by a thick, regionally extensive, 60 to 70 Ma tonalite sill and on the west by a 90 Ma granodiorite pluton (Brew, 1997 Still and others, 2002). On the north side of Groundhog Basin, about 2 miles northwest of this prospect, the metamorphic rocks are intruded by a 16.3 Ma biotite 'tin' granite pluton about 1,000 by 2,0000 feet in size. The granite is probably the source of the numerous rhyolite dikes and sills that extend from it and the mineralization in the area (Newberry and Brew, 1989). The East Marsh Peak prospect was mapped and sampled by El Paso Natural Gas Company in the early 1970's; they dug three, 20- to 60-foot, samples on the property. Several other companies have looked at the property and Still and others (2002) mapped and sampled the prospect as part of a regional mineral assessment for the BLM. The mineralization here is similar in origin to that at the he well known mineralization at the Groundhog Basin deposit (PE040) to the north and the numerous other base-metal prospect sin the area. The East Marsha Peak prospect is associated with a fault zone that strikes about N 25 E and crosscuts the northwest-trending layering in the gneiss and the rhyolite sills in the gneiss The shear zone is 30 to 40 feet wide and extends for about 2,000 feet. The hanging wall is highly silicified with vugs of quartz and fluorite. Sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, and pyrrhotite occur in masses and disseminations in brecciated gneiss along the shear zone and in gouge. The ore minerals also occur in a network of fractures that extend out into the gneiss wallrock for up to 40 feet. El Paso Natural Gas Company (George and Wyckoff, 1973) and Still and others (2002) collected numerous samples in the trenches and in surface outcrops. In one trench at an elevation of about 4,075 feet, El Paso sampled a zone up up 30 feet thick that averaged 3.19 percent zinc, 1.67 percent lead, and 1.99 ounces of silver per ton. Their trench at an elevation of about 4,100 feet exposed a zone 13 feet thick that averaged 1.45 percent zinc, 2.75 percent lead, and 1.23 ounce of silver per ton; an additional 18 feet across the mineralization averaged 1.79 percent zinc with little lead and silver. Other samples gave similar values.
Workings: The East Marsh Peak prospect was mapped and sampled by El Paso Natural Gas Company in the early 1970's. They dug 3, 20 to 60 foot, samples on the property. Several other companies have looked at the property and Still and others (2002) mapped and sampled the prospect as part of a regional mineral assessment for the BLM.
Age: Probably 16.3 Ma based on a genetic tie to a nearby, zinnwaldite 'tin' granite (Newberry and Brew, 1989).
Alteration: Silicification along a sheared zone.
Commodities (Major) - Ag, Pb, Zn
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Banded Ag-Cu-Sn-Pb-Zn tabular replacement bodies, veins, and stringers.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
7 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
ⓘ Fluorite Formula: CaF2 |
ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
ⓘ Pyrrhotite Formula: Fe1-xS |
ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
Group 3 - Halides | |||
ⓘ | Fluorite | 3.AB.25 | CaF2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
F | Fluorine | |
F | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
S | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | ⓘ Fluorite | CaF2 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
Fe | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
Cu | Copper | |
Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Zn | Zinc | |
Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
Pb | Lead | |
Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Other Databases
Link to USGS - Alaska: | PE112 |
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USA
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