The Unnamed (near head of Annette Bay) is a lead, copper, and gold mine located in Alaska.
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Unnamed (near head of Annette Bay) MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed (near head of Annette Bay)
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
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: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Diorite hostrock is propylitized.
Rocks
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Cretaceous
Age Old: Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Comments
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Samples of the diorite contained up to 0.26 ppm Au, 300 ppm Cu, 1500 ppm Zn, and 10 ppm Mo; and a sample of chalcopyrite-bearing greenstone near a diorite contact contained 300 ppm Cu (Karl, 1992, loc. 5a-g).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Disseminated sulfide deposit of late magmatic origin?
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The country rocks in the area of this site are Upper Jurassic or Cretaceous andesitic or basaltic metavolcanic rocks that are gradationally interbedded with subordinate flyschlike metasedimentary rocks (Berg, 1972 [I 684]; Berg and others, 1988). The bedded rocks are intruded by a Jurassic or Cretaceous stock and dikes of diorite and quartz diorite. The rocks were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist-grade phyllite and semischist in Late Cretaceous time. The occurrences all are in propylitized diorite that contains about 5 percent of disseminated pyrite, and pyrite seams along fractures (Karl, 1992, loc. 5a-g). Samples of the diorite contained up to 0.26 ppm Au, 300 ppm Cu, 1500 ppm Zn, and 10 ppm Mo; a sample of chalcopyrite-bearing diorite near its contact with the bedded rocks contained 300 ppm Cu. The distribution and setting of the disseminated sulfide mineralization suggest that it may in part be cogenetic with Jurassic or Cretaceous emplacement of the diorite hostrock.
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = Karl, 1992
Comment (Geology): Age = Disseminated sulfide mineralization may in part be cogenetic with Jurassic or Cretaceous emplacement of the diorite hostrock.
References
Reference (Deposit): Karl, S.M., 1992, Map and table of mineral deposits on Annette Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-690, 57 p., 1 map, scale 1:63,360.
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): Berg, H.C., 1972, Geologic map of Annette Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-684, 8 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360,
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