The Unnamed (east of Swan Lake) is a molybdenum mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (east of Swan Lake) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (east of Swan Lake)
Commodity
Primary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Alaska
District: Ketchikan
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:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Porphyry Mo, low-F
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Locally conspicuous iron-staining.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Molybdenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Porphyry Mo, low-F? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 21b)
Comment (Geology): Age = Cretaceous
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Site is on the western boundary of Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks near this prospect are pelitic schist and gneiss, and subordinate andesitic and basaltic metavolcanic rocks, that are intruded by Cretaceous stocks, sills, and dikes of feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite, and by small metadiorite plutons of undetermined age (Berg and others, 1988). The strata were regionally metamorphosed to upper greenschist or amphibolite grade in Cretaceous time, and, near some of the granodiorite contacts, subsequently contact metamorphosed to hornblende hornfels. The premetamorphic age range of the strata is unknown. Berg and others (1988, p. 17) assigned them an undivided Mesozoic or Paleozoic age. More recent studies suggest that at least some of the strata may be as old as Precambrian (Crawford and others, in press).? This occurrence consists of sparsely disseminated, minute particles of molybdenite in a rusty-weathering, 45-foot-thick granodiorite(?) sill that intrudes pelitic paragneiss (Elliott and others, 1978). An analysis of the molybdenite-bearing rock showed 150 ppm Mo (Koch and Elliott, 1978 [OFR 78-156A]). The molybdenite may be a late-stage hydrothermal mineral in the granodiorite.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = An analysis of the molybdenite-bearing rock showed 150 ppm Mo (Koch and Elliott, 1978 [OFR 78-156A]).
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Elliott and others, 1978
References
Reference (Deposit): Elliott, R.L., Berg, H.C., and Karl, Susan, 1978, map and table describing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report, 78-73-B,17 p., scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Koch, R.D., and Elliott, R.L., 1978, Analyses of rock samples from Ketchikan quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-156-A, 162 p., 1 sheet, scale l:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Berg, H.C., Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1988, Geologic map of the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Series Map MF-1807,27 p., scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Crawford, M.L., Crawford, W.A., and Gehrels, G.E., 2000, Terrane assembly and structural relationships in the eastern Prince Rupert quadrangle, British Columbia, in H.H. Stowell and W.C.McClelland, eds., Tectonics of the Coast Mountains, southeastern Alaska and British Columbia: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 343, p. 1-21.?
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