Sharon Prospect, Ketchikan District, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, USA
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Geology: The country rocks in this part of Revillagigedo Island are mainly marine, andesitic or basaltic metavolcanic rocks and interbedded pelitic metasedimentary rocks that are intruded by Cretaceous sills and dikes of feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite, and by a stock of Tertiary gabbro (Berg and others, 1988). The strata and some of the granodiorite were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade in Late Cretaceous time, and subsequently remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near the contacts of the gabbro stock. The premetamorphic age of the strata is uncertain. Berg and others (1988) note that they closely resemble Upper Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous flysch and volcanic rocks nearby on Gravina Island. According to U.S. Bureau of Mines claim records (1977), this prospect, which appears to be in metasedimentary rocks near the contact of the gabbro stock, was staked for copper and zinc. No other information about it has been made public.
Commodities (Major) - Cu, Zn
Development Status: None
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References
Berg, H.C., Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1988, Geologic map of the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Series Map I-1807, 27 p., scale 1:250,000. Elliott, R.L., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1978, map and table describing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-73-B, 17 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000. U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1977, Claim map, Ketchikan quadrangle: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 120, scale 1:250,000.