The Unnamed (west arm of Dundas Bay) is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (west arm of Dundas Bay) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (west arm of Dundas Bay)
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Cobalt
Location
State: Alaska
District: Juneau
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
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Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = the copper and cobalt content of the occurrence is significant , but the size is limited because the dikes are narrow and the island small. The site is in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
Comment (Geology): Age = Probably Cretaceous or younger. The copper minerals occur in hornblendite dikes which cut metamorphic strata of Paleozoic age.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = MacKevett and others (1971) reported about 1 percent Cu in samples of hornblendite dikes. Kimball and others (1978) reported 1.8 percent copper in selected samples of copper-rich lenses; the selected samples contained as much as 3 ppm silver and 700 ppm cobalt. There are no mine workings.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The site is in a belt of quartz-feldspar-hornblende paragneiss and gneissic diorite. The protolith of the gneiss is Paleozoic in age; metamorphism occurred in the Cretaceous (Brew and others, 1978). At the site, hornblendite dikes as much as 10 feet thick contain disseminated chalcopyrite and lenses of nearly massive chalcopyrite as much as 2 inches thick and 6 inches long. The dikes cut garnetiferous gneissic diorite.? A grab sample of sulfide-bearing hornblendite collected during the U.S. Geological Survey's 1966 investigation of Glacier Bay contained 10,000 ppm copper by spectrographic analysis (MacKevett and others, 1971, table 9). Kimball and others (1978, p. C270) reported 1.8 percent copper, 3 ppm silver, and 700 ppm cobalt in selected samples of narrow chalcopyrite-rich lenses. ? the dikes appear to be post-Cretaceous metamorphism. They are probably Late Cretaceous or younger in age.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Kimball and others, 1978
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Disseminated copper deposit in ultramafic (hornblendite) rock.
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
References
Reference (Deposit): MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Brew, D.A., Hawley, C.C., Huff, L.C., and Smith, J.G., 1971, Mineral resources of Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 632, 90 p., 12 plates, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Mount Fairweather quadrangle, AK: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Study Map MF-436, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Brew, D.A., Johnson, B.R., Grybeck, D., Griscom, A., Barnes, D.F., Kimball, A.L., Still, J.C., and Rataj, J.L., 1978, Mineral resources of the Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-494, 670 p.
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