Pyrite Lode

The Pyrite Lode is a molybdenum mine located in Alaska.

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Site Name

Primary: Pyrite Lode

Commodity

Primary: Molybdenum

Location

State: Alaska
District: Ketchikan

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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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: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Not available

Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Late Cretaceous or younger

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Elliott and others, 1978; Berg and others, 1988

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Polymetallic vein? (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Pyrite Lode prospect area is underlain by an assemblage of undivided Mesozoic or Paleozoic metamorphosed sedimentary, volcanic, and intrusive rocks; and by a stock and dikes of Cretaceous granodiorite and quartz diorite (Berg and others, 1988, p. 21, 22). The undivided assemblage was regionally metamorphosed to amphibolite grade in middle or Late Cretaceous time, and locally remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near the contacts of some of the granodiorite and quartz diorite plutons. ? the deposit consists of small pockets of molybdenite and pyrite in a quartz fissure vein in metamorphic rocks (Elliott and others, 1978). The Pyrite Lode was staked in 1953 (Maas and others, 1995, p. 266). No other information about this prospect has been made public.? Assuming that the vein cuts the foliation of the metamorphic rocks, it probably is younger than the middle or Late Cretaceous regional metamorphism.

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the property is in Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness.

References

Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1977, Claim map, Ketchikan quadrangle: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 120, scale 1:250,000.

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): Maas, K.M., Bittenbender, P E., and Still, J.C., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 11-95, 606 p.

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