The Hurricane-Diane is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Hurricane-Diane MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hurricane-Diane
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Alaska
District: Koyukuk
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: Skarn Cu
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Contact metasomatic.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Cu skarn deposits (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 18b)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = This prospect is approximately 3 miles south-southwest of the Luna prospect (CH0101). See also: Luna (CH101), Gayle (CH091), Ginger (CH060), and Evelyn Lee (CH059). Alaska Kardex No. 00-31-53B (Kardex is a card file mining claim information system located at the State of Alaska DNR Public Information Center in Fairbanks).
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Hurricane-Diane prospect is one of a number of copper occurrences that comprise the Chandalar copper belt. Information describing the geology of individual prospects generally is scarce. Early descriptions (Grybeck, 1977; DeYoung, 1978; Cobb and Cruz, 1983) combined this prospect with the Luna prospect (CH101). Together they were described as small skarn-hosted chalcopyrite deposits in Devonian Skajit Limestone intruded by a small greenstone-greenschist body (Cobb and Cruz, 1983). Later information has shown that they are distinct deposits. Newberry and others (1986) included them in a group of skarn deposits northwest of and related to the Devonian(?) Horace Mountain granitic plutons. Many of these skarns exhibit both garnet and pyroxene prograde and epidote and actinolite retrograde mineral assemblages, and Newberry and others (1986) stated that their mineralogy, mineralization, and alteration tend to place them in the category of continental-margin, porphyry-related copper skarns. Newberry and others (1986) noted that the Hurricane-Diane prospect is a Cu-Zn-Pb skarn, which suggests that it is a distal occurrence within the belt. Because the Zn and Pb values are nominal, however (see below), Newberry and others (1997) have classified the Hurricane prospect as a calcic Cu skarn. Ventures Resource Corporation (currently exploring Doyon, Limited lands in the area under an agreement with Doyon, Limited) classifies the Hurricane-Diane prospect as a copper prospect (URL http://www.venturesresource.com/). A hand-specimen description (Newberry and others, 1986) showed the mineralogy of the skarn to be principally garnet, epidote, actinolite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and magnetite. The epidote-actinolite is described as part of a crosscutting retrograde assemblage. An analysis of the hand specimen gave values of 1.6 percent Cu, 105 ppm Ag, 0.2 percent Zn and 0.07 percent Pb. The prospect is in an area mapped by Dillon and others (1996) as principally Devonian Skajit Limestone, Ordovician black phyllite and marble, and Ordovician to Cambrian(?) calcareous-chlorite-quartz schist and quartzite. These units are intruded by Devonian aplite, a component of the Horace Mountain plutonic assemblage, and their contact-related tactite and calcareous hornfels presumably host the skarn mineralization.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Claims staked from 1967 to 1973 lapsed in 1977, and the land was acquired by Doyon, Limited via its Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act selections. Surface exploration only.
Comment (Geology): Age = Devonian based on reported Early Devonian Pb/Pb zircon ages from the associated Baby Creek batholith and Horace Mountain plutons (Dillon and others, 1996).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Newberry and others, 1986
References
Reference (Deposit): Maas, K.M., 1987, Maps summarizing land availability for mineral exploration and development in northern Alaska, 1986: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 10-87, 33 quadrangle overlays.
Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Dillon, J.T., and Adams, D.D., 1986, Regionally metamorphosed calc-silicate-hosted deposits of the Brooks Range, northern Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1728-1752
Reference (Deposit): Newberry, R.J., Allegro, G.L., Cutler, S.E., Hagen-Levelle, D.D., Adams, D.D., Nicholson, L.C., Weglarz, T.B., Bakke, A.A., Clautice, K.H., Coulter, G.A., Ford, M.J., Myers, G.L., and Szumigala, D.J., 1997, Skarn deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 355-395.
Reference (Deposit): Ventures Resource Corporation, 1998, 1997 Annual Report and Website (Worldwide Web URL http://www.venturesresource.com/).
URL: http://www.venturesresource.com/
Reference (Deposit): DeYoung, J.H., Jr., 1978, Mineral resources map of the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-878-B, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Adams, D.D., and Dillon, J.T., 1985, Geochemical investigations in the Chandalar C-5 and C-6 quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public-Data File 85-26, 37 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360. (Superseded by RI 88-15.)
Reference (Deposit): Grybeck, D.J., 1977, Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-166C, 41 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., and Cruz, E.L., 1983, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-278, 91 p.
Reference (Deposit): Adams, D.D., and Dillon, J.T., 1985, Geochemical investigations in the Chandalar C-5 and C-6 quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Public-Data File 85-26, 37 p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360. (Superseded by RI 88-15.)
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