The Copenhagen Hill is a copper mine located in Alaska.
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Copenhagen Hill MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copenhagen Hill
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Alaska
District: McGrath
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Porphyry Cu-Au
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Tourmaline.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Tourmaline
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Exploration): Status = Inactive
Comment (Reference): Primary Reference = DiMarchi and others, 1997
Comment (Geology): Age = the Copenhagen Hill prospect is believed to be Late Cretaceous, based on inferred isotopic age of Mystery Mountains plutonic rocks (Moll and others, 1981).
Comment (Deposit): Model Name = Porphyry Cu-Au (Cox and Singer, 1986; model no. 20c)
Comment (Deposit): Other Comments = See Pork Chop (MD031), Mystery Mountains East (MD028), Frozen Creek (MD032), and Tarn (MD027) prospects.
Comment (Workings): Workings / Exploration = Regional exploration conducted by WGM Inc. in 1978 found the Copenhagen prospect (Andrews, 1978). During 1988 to 1990, ACNC conducted exploration including an airborne geophysical survey. During 1991 to 1997, ASA Inc. continued detailed exploration work at the Copenhagen prospect and throughout the Mystery Mountains. The Copenhagen Hill prospect is believed by DiMarchi and others (1997) to represent the western-most copper-gold anomalous area in a district-wide, porphyry-style metallic zonation (DiMarchi and others, 1997). No assay data was found for this summary.
Comment (Geology): Geologic Description = The Copenhagen Hill prospect is the western-most copper-gold showing in a seven mile (11 km)-long, northeast trending belt of porphyry-like prospects through the central Mystery Mountains (DiMarchi and others, 1997). The hornfels is intruded by several porphyry dikes. Unlike other prospects in the Mystery Mountains, sulfides such as chalcopyrite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite are found in abundance in the hornfels. Quartz-tourmaline breccias are common within a 450 feet by 300 feet (137 m by 91 m) mineralized area. The Copenhagen Hill prospect is believed to be Late Cretaceous, based on inferred isotopic age of Mystery Mountains plutonic rocks (Moll and others, 1981). No assay data was found for this summary.
References
Reference (Deposit): DiMarchi, J.J., and Frantz, P.S., 1997, Annual Report for 1997-Doyon Option Lands, Block 10: ASA Inc.-Montague Gold Joint Venture Report, Volume II: Unpublished report, 189 p. (Report held by Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska.)
Reference (Deposit): Moll, E.J., Silberman, M.L., and Patton, W.W. Jr., 1981, Chemistry, mineralogy, and K-Ar ages of igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Medfra quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-811C, 15 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Reference (Deposit): Andrews, Tom, 1978, Summary of Progress, Doyon Project, Mystery Mountains, (Block 10): Anchorage, Alaska, WGM Inc., 24 pages (Held by Doyon Ltd., as proprietary report 78-42).
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