The Hattie is a gold mine located in Alaska.
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Hattie MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hattie
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Alaska
District: Kupreanof
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Known since before 1905 and explored by about 500 feet of underground workings from an adit (Wright and Wright, 1908). Moderate-sized dump on property. Roehm (1945 [IR 195-37]) noted that the property consisted of two parallel veins along a brecciated shear zone; levels at 63 and 134 feet were developed through a shaft. The dump is overgrown by trees and there has probably been no underground work of any significance since before WWII. However, the property has repeatedly been visited by geologists over the last several decades in conjunction with the general high level of interest in Woewodski Island, and probably has had considerable surface geologic, geochemical, and geophysical work in the vicinity, if not at this particular deposit.
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = Minor pyrite
Comment (Commodity): Ore Material = rare chalcopyrite
Comment (Exploration): Status = Active?
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Au-quartz vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)
Comment (Production): Production Notes = No documented production. There have been persistent rumors of at least a small test ore shipment that was processed nearby at the Helen S mill in the early part of the century.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = White quartz veins along a zone at least 1000 feet long cut pyritic, rusty-weathering, light-greenish gray calcareous metarhyolite that is probably part of the Triassic Hyd Group. The metarhyolite is intruded by Mesozoic epidote-hornblende gabbro and fresh, medium-grained Cretaceous diorite (Brew, 1997 [OF 97-156-J]). The quartz veins contain sparse to rare disseminated pyrite, and rare grains of chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite. Gold values uncertain but probably low; the best assay from several samples collected by the USGS on the dump in the early 80's was 0.05 ounces of gold per ton (Grybeck, Berg, and Karl, 1984). Roehm (1945 [IR 195-37]) noted that the deposit had low Ag and Au values.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Reserves = None
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Wright and Wright, 1908; this description
References
Reference (Deposit): Berg, H. C., and Grybeck, Donald, 1980, Upper Triassic volcanogenic Zn-Pb-Ag (-Cu-Au) mineral deposits near Petersburg, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-527, 11 p., 1 oversize sheet.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-415, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870, 53 p.
Reference (Deposit): Roehm, J.C., 1945, Preliminary report of investigations and itinerary of J. C. Roehm in the Wrangell and Petersburg precincts, Alaska: Teritory of Alaska, Department of Mines Itinerary Report 195-37, 13 p.
Reference (Deposit): Wright, F.E., and Wright, C.W., 1908, The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 347, 210 p.
Reference (Deposit): Wright, F.E., and Wright, C.W., 1905, Economic developments in southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 259, p. 47-68.
Reference (Deposit): Brew, D.A., 1997, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Petersburg C-4 quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-156-J, 21 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.
Reference (Deposit): Grybeck, D.J., Berg, H.C., and Karl, S.M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E. H., 1972, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Petersburg Quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-870, 53 p.
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