The Goodyear Prospect is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Mine Info
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Goodyear Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Goodyear Prospect
Secondary: Hubbard and Elliott Claims
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Alaska
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: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Elliott Cr. Runs Roughly Parallel To Axis Of Large Anticline
Type: L
Description: Ore Body Is Confined By Two N-S Striking Faults And A Ne Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Greenstone
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Greenstone
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Unknown: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): TABULAR, FAULT-BOUNDED ORE BODY 4 TO 8 FT THICK DEVELOPED IN SHEARZONE PARALLEL TO FAULTS IN NIKOLAI GREENSTONE; BORNITE AND CHALCOPYRITEOCCUR IN SHEETED CALCITE VEINS, OR ASSOCIATED WITH QUARTZ AND CALCITE IN FRACTURE ZONES
Comment (Workings): EXPLORED BY 300 FT TUNNEL AND AT LEAST ONE OPEN CUT BY 1923, PRESENT CONDITION UNKNOWN
Comment (Geology): ELLIOTT CREEK AREA GEOLOGY CONSISTS OF TRIASSIC NIKOLAI GREENSTONE OVERLAIN BY CHITISTONE LIMESTONE WHICH HAS BEEN FOLDED INTO A LARGE ASYMMETRIC ANTICLINE AND CUT BY NUMEROUS FAULTS; FOLDED AND FAULTED SECTION IS CAPPED BY JURASSIC KOTSINA CONGLOMERATE; ORE DEPOSITS ARE RESTRICTED TO MINERALIZED SHEAR ZONES IN THE GREENSTONE
Comment (Deposit): MOST DEVELOPMENT DONE IN ELLIOTT CREEK AREA WAS ON GOODYEAR, ELIZABETH AND ALBERT JOHNSON CLAIMS; TOTAL OF 1500 TO 2000 FT OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS AND SEVERAL OPEN CUTS IN ELLIOTT CR. DRAINAGE; NO RECORD OF ANY PRODUCTION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Comment (Development): ELLIOTT CREEK AREA WAS FIRST STAKED IN 1899 BY H. C. ELLIOTT AND CHARLES G. HUBBARD; NUMEROUS CLAIMS PATENTED BY 1907; PROSPECTING MAINLYBEFORE 1916 ALTHOUGH APPARENT POST 1950 ACTIVITY HAS BEEN REPORTED FOR THE AREA
Comment (Location): BEST LOCATION: USGS BULL 745, PLATE III, LOC. 21 LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).
Comment (Commodity): PYRITE MAY BE CU-BEARING
References
Reference (Other Database): BAG-OFR-80-892B-55
Reference (Deposit): USGS OFR 80-892B, LOC. 55
Reference (Deposit): USGS MF-438, LOC. 65
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 1246, P. 43
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 745, P. 115-118, 120
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 374, P. 67-68, 64
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 15, P. 16-19, 25-26
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