Unnamed (on Salt Island)

The Unnamed (on Salt Island) is a copper mine located in Alaska.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Unnamed (on Salt Island)

Commodity

Primary: Copper

Location

State: Alaska
District: Aleutian Islands

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

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

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Basaltic Cu (BC name is Volcanic redbed Cu)

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Copper

Comments

Comment (Geology): Age = Tertiary or younger.

Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = Site is within the Aleutian Maritime Wildlife Refuge.

Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = Capps (1934) reports that natives are said to have mined native copper, probably from an amygdaloidal lava flow.

Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Basaltic copper (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 23)

Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Capps, 1934

Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive

References

Reference (Deposit): Capps, S.R., 1934, Notes on the geology of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, in Smith, P.S., and others, Mineral resources of Alaska, 1932: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 857-D, 173 p.

Reference (Deposit): Hein, J.R., McLean, H., and Vallier, T.L., 1981, Reconnaissance geologic map of Atka and Amlia Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-159, 78 p., 1 map sheet, scale 1:125,000.

Reference (Deposit): Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.

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