The Boundary is a gold and silver mine located in Alaska.
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Boundary MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Boundary
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Alaska
District: Petersburg
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
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Comments
Comment (Geology): Age = Holocene
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Unknown, but probably small, if any
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Placer?
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Ten placer(?) claims staked in the valley of Unuk River (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979). Occurrence is in Misty Fiords National Monument.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks in, and immediately upstream from, the area of this placer(?) occurrence are Tertiary or Cretaceous granodiorite and quartz diorite; Mesozoic or Paleozoic metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks and minor marble; and Eocene leucocratic quartz monzonite and granodiorite (Elliott and Koch, 1981; Koch, 1996). No other geologic information about this property was publicly available in 1981 (Elliott and Koch, 1981, loc. 14).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Elliott and Koch, 1981
References
Reference (Deposit): Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Koch, R.D., 1996, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-A, 35 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979, Claim map 118: Mines and prospects of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 20-73, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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