The Copper King is a silver, gold, copper, lead, and zinc mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Lat, Long: 56.47, -131.98000
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Copper King MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper King
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Primary: Copper
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc
Location
State: Alaska
District: Petersburg
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
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Comments
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = There is little reliable information about the Copper King prospect (Cobb, 1978, loc. 1; Elliott and Koch, 1981, loc. 3). ? the country rocks in the general area of the Copper King prospect are Mesozoic or Paleozoic pelitic schist and paragneiss and subordinate amphibolite and marble (Koch, 1996, 1997). Ambiguous early descriptions suggest that the deposit may be a sulfide-bearing vein carrying Cu, Pb, and Zn minerals and some gold and silver. No other geological information about this property has been made public.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Sulfide minerals
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic vein?
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Early reports describing the Copper King prospect (Chapin, 1916, p. 78; 1918, p. 75) also refer to the Berg claims, a prospect that is described separately in this report (BC003). Parts of some of the early descriptions of the Copper King and Berg prospects may actually refer to a deposit in the Berg Basin area to the west in the adjoining Petersburg quadrangle.?Claim(s) staked in 1906 and restaked in 1951. An adit 300 feet long was reported in 1916 (Chapin, 1916), but the reference may actually be to a prospect in Berg Basin to the west in the Petersburg quadrangle.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Elliott and Koch, 1981
References
Reference (Deposit): Chapin, Theodore, 1918, Mining developments in the Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 662-B, p. 63-75.
Reference (Deposit): Chapin, Theodore, 1916, Mining developments in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 642, p. 73-104.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-922, 98 p.
Reference (Deposit): Koch, R.D., 1997, Metalliferous mineral resource potential in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-271, 57 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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.
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