The White Knight is a gold and copper mine located in Alaska.
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White Knight MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: White Knight
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Copper
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: 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
Not available
Rocks
Name: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Wright and Wright, 1908; Berg, 1973
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Two claims staked in early 1900s.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks near the White Knight prospect are Silurian or Ordovician extrusive, intrusive, and marine sedimentary rocks that are intruded by a Silurian trondhjemite stock (Berg, 1973; Berg and others, 1988). The Silurian or Ordovician rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade.? Wright and Wright (1908, p. 140) describe the deposit as small masses of chalcopyrite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite in greenstone country rock. In the early 1900s, prospectors staked two claims on the property, which they probably explored mainly for gold.
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic veins? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)
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): 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): 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): Berg, H.C., 1973, Geology of Gravina Island Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1373, 41 p.
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