The Titan is a copper, lead, zinc, silver, and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 56.01111, -130.02194
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Titan MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Titan
Secondary: Titan Salmon River Syndicate
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Hyder
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
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
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sheared country rocks adjacent to veins are impregnated with sulfide minerals.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Arsenopyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): Production Notes = Despite fairly extensive underground workings, there is no public record of any production.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Buddington, 1929
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Property was explored in 1920's by about 550 feet of adit and crosscuts.? In the early 1920's (Buddington, 1925, p. 74), one of the owners described this deposit as a quartz body 12 feet wide carrying about 0.19 oz Au and 6 oz Ag per ton. Selected samples of rich stringers in porphyry were said to assay as much as 4.5 oz Au per ton.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks in the area of this prospect are pelitic metasedimentary and subordinate andesitic (greenstone) metavolcanic strata of the Jurassic or older Mesozoic Hazelton Group, which is underlain and locally intruded by the Triassic Texas Creek Granodiorite; the Eocene Hyder Quartz Monzonite, which intrudes the Hazelton and Texas Creek rocks; and still-younger Tertiary lamprophyre dikes, which cut all the other rocks (Smith, 1973, 1977; Koch, 1996).? the deposit (Buddington, 1925, p. 74; 1929, p. 72-74; Elliott and Koch, 1981, loc. 77) is in Hazelton Group greenstone and slate cut by Triassic and Eocene porphyry dikes. Most of the work (about 550 feet of adit and crosscuts) was done to prospect quartz veins up to 2 feet thick in a sheared and altered porphyry dike with many included layers of slate and greenstone. The shear zone was traced in outcrop for about 750 feet. The porphyry near the veins is impregnated with pyrite, and the quartz contains disseminated sphalerite and lesser amounts of galena, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. Picked surface samples of this lode reportedly were high in Au and Ag; samples from underground were leaner. In the early 1920's (Buddington, 1925, p. 74), one of the owners described this deposit as a quartz body 12 feet wide carrying about 0.19 oz Au and 6 oz Ag per ton. Selected samples of rich stringers in porphyry were said to assay as much as 4.5 oz Au per ton.? Elsewhere on this property a sheared 7-to10-foot-thick quartz vein in greenstone(?) is cut by a granodiorite porphyry dike. Local shoots in the walls of this vein carry a little disseminated galena, sphalerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite. Another shear zone in greenstone carried considerable arsenopyrite and a little galena.? Despite fairly extensive underground workings on this property, there is no public record of any production.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic veins
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Property originally staked in 1917; last reported work was in 1928.
References
Reference (Deposit): Buddington, A.F., 1925, Mineral investigations in southeastern Alasaka: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 773, p. 71-139.
Reference (Deposit): Buddington, A.F., 1929, Geology of Hyder and vicinity, southeastern Alaska, with a reconnaissance of Chickamin River: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 807, 124 p.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, J.G., 1973, A Tertiary lamprophyre dike province in southeastern Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 10, p. 408-420.
Reference (Deposit): Smith, J.G., 1977, Geology of the Ketchikan D-1 and Bradfield Canal A-1 quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1425, 49 p.
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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