Unnamed Occurrence (ARDF - MF047; 3850 Nunatak west of Tarr Inlet), Juneau District, Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Borough, Alaska, USA
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Location: The occurrence is on a nunatak on a 3850-foot largely ice-mantled mountain two miles southwest of Tarr Inlet and three miles northwest of the point between Johns Hopkins Inlet and Tarr Inlet. It is in the NE 1/4 of section 1, T. 34 S., R. 50 E., of the Copper River Meridian and is located within 0.25 mile accuracy. The location is number 27 of Kimball and others (1978).
Geology: The occurrence area is extensively ice-mantled. Generally it is in an area where the country rocks are volcanic rocks of Permian age intruded by granitic rocks of Cretaceous age (Brew and others, 1978). At the occurrence, skarn-like pods of massive sulfide as much as 0.5 foot across occur in marble and volcanic rocks at a granitic contact. Silicate minerals in the skarn include actinolite, chlorite, diopside, epidote, and garnet. The sulfides are mainly pyrite and pyrrhotite, and minor chalcopyrite. Chip samples (Kimball and others, 1978, table C37, location 27) contained as much as 770 ppm copper, 190 ppm zinc, and 1.5 ppm silver.
Workings: Surface occurrence only; samples of massive sulfide pods as much as 0.5 foot thick contained anomalous amounts of copper, zinc, and silver (Kimball and others, 1978, table C37, sample--location--number 27).
Age: Tertiary.
Alteration: Skarn developed in calc-magnesian rocks. Skarn minerals include garnet and epidote.
Commodities (Major) - Cu; (Minor) - Ag, Zn
Development Status: No
Deposit Model: Skarn, massive sulfide -- similar to porphyry copper, skarn related (Cox and Si
Mineral List
4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.
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References
Brew, D.A., Johnson, B.R., Grybeck, D., Griscom, A., Barnes, D.F., Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, 670 p., 7 sheets. Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources, in Brew, D. A., and others, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument wilderness study area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, p. C1-C375.