The Unnamed Near El Capitan Passage is a silver, gold, and lead mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed Near El Capitan Passage MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed Near El Capitan Passage
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Primary: Lead
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: Unknown
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Location): APPROXIMATE CENTER OF TWO CLAIMS STAKED IN 1962 NEAR THE NORTHEAST END OF KOSCIUSKO ISLAND (U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1980). LOCALITY 53 OF GRYBECK, KARL, AND BERG, 1984. MAY BE THE CLAIMS ON THE EL CAP GOLD VEIN DESCRIBED AS PE051.
Comment (Workings): TWO CLAIMS STAKED FOR GOLD, LEAD, AND SILVER IN 1962; ACTIVE THROUGH 1967 BUT APPARENTLY NOT SINCE (U. S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1984).
Comment (Deposit): NO DETAILS ARE KNOWN BEYOND THE PRESENCE OF THE CLAIMS.
References
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
Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map No. 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Grybeck, D. J., Berg, H. C., and Karl, S. M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
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