| Deposit ID | 10000179 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | A010216 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Craig |
| Geographic coordinates: | -131.27181, 56.46976 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | The approximate location of the Craig occurrence, known in 1981 (Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 8, loc. 10) only from a U.S. Bureau of Mines claim map (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979), is at an elevation of about 4000 feet on a steep mountainside southwest of a north-flowing tributary of the South Fork of Craig River. The occurrence, which is a few hundred feet below the foot of an icefield, is about 1.1 mile southwest of the Alaska-British Columbia boundary, and roughly 3.8 miles west-northwest of Mt. Pounder on the International Boundary. This location probably is accurate to within about a quarter of a mile. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Wade Hampton(Census area)
Alaska(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Bradfield Canal B-4(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)
Bradfield Canal SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Bradfield Canal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Southern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)
Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)
Alaska(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Tongass National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State |
|---|---|
| United States | Alaska |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chalcopyrite | Ore |
| Magnetite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Pyrrhotite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock |
| (1) | -131.27181, 56.46976 |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| District name | Petersburg |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | A010216 | |
| USGS | Alaska Resource Data File | ARDF | BC010 |
Elliott, R.L., and Koch, R.D., 1981, Mines, prospects, and selected metalliferous mineral occurrences in the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-B, 23 p., 1 sheet, scales 1:250,000 and 1:63,360.
Koch, R.D., 1996, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, southeastern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-728-A, 35 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979, Claim map 118: Mines and prospects of the Bradfield Canal quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 20-73, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Other Comments = Sixty claims were recorded in 1977 (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1979), but were not active in 1981 (Elliott and Koch, 1981, loc. 10). ? |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 17-MAY-1998 | H. C. Berg | U.S. Geological Survey |
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