Unnamed Near Round Point

The Unnamed Near Round Point is a copper, lead, and zinc mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed Near Round Point

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc

Location

State: Alaska
District: Ketchikan

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Unknown
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Massive sulfide, kuroko

Orebody

Form: SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS

Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Production): NONE

Comment (Workings): SITE WAS ORIGINALLY DEFINED IN 1984 BY GRYBECK, BERG, AND KARL ON THE BASIS OF A BRIEF VISIT TO AN INDUSTRY EXPLORATION CAMP NEARBY. HOWEVER, EXPLORATION WAS MORE WIDESPREAD THAN JUST THE OCCURRENCE THAT THE USGS VISITED AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME DRILLING ON THE PROPERTY. HOWEVER, THERE IS LITTLE INDICATION THAT MAJOR SURFACE EXPLORATION CONTINUED IN THIS AREA MUCH BEYOND THE MID-80'S, ALTHOUGH THE AREA MAY WELL HAVE BEEN FURTHER EXAMINED BY INDUSTRY SINCE.

Comment (Location): AS ORIGINALLY REPORTED BY GRYBECK, BERG, AND KARL (1984), THIS SITE IS BASED ON A SHORT EXAMINATION BY THE REPORTERS AND AN INDUSTRY GEOLOGIST WHO WAS WORKING FROM A SMALL CAMP NEARBY. THE SPECIFIC SITE THAT WAS VISITED WAS AN EXPOSURE IN A SMALL CREEK BED IN ABOUT THE CENTER OF SECTION 36, T. 64 S., R. 81 E., BUT MINERALIZED OUTCROPS WERE REPORTED TO BE MORE EXTENSIVE IN THE VICINITY.

Comment (Deposit): THE MINERALIZED EXPOSURE CONSISTS OF RUSTY-WEATHERING, LIGHT GREEN-GRAY FELSIC METAVOLCANIC ROCKS WITH SMALL LENSES, PODS, AND LAYERS UP TO A FOOT THICK THAT CONTAIN DISSEMINATED SULFIDES, MAINLY PYRITE AND POSSIBLY SPHALERITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. ANALYSES OF GRAB SAMPLES SHOW LESS THAN 5 PPM CU, 50-150 PPM PB, 200-11,000 ZN, AND 150-5,000 BA. THE FELSIC METAVOLCANIC ROCKS ARE INTERBEDDED WITH LIGHT GRAY, SILICIFIED LIMESTONE AND DARK GRAY ARGILLITE. RECENT GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE AREA (S. KARL, ORAL COMMUNICATION, 1998) INDICATES THAT THE ROCKS IN WHICH THE SULFIDES OCCURS ARE PROBABLY PART OF THE TRIASSIC HYD GROUP. THE SITE MARKED THE SOUTHERN END OF THE DUNCAN CANAL-ZAREMBO BELT OF TRIASSIC VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE-SULFIDE MINERALIZATION AS ORIGINALLY DEFINED BY BERG AND GRYBECK IN 1980.

References

Reference (Deposit): Berg, H. C., and Grybeck, Donald, 1980, Upper Triassic volcanogenic Zn-Pb-Ag (-Cu-Au) mineral deposits near Pertersburg, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-527, 11 p., 1 oversize sheet.

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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