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Bay of Islands

Occurrence in Alaska, United States with commodity Copper
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Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003296
MRDS ID A106039
Record type Site
Current site name Bay of Islands

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -176.69343, 51.7678 (WGS84)
Relative position Locality described as upstream from the head of Bay of Islands, location accuracy no better than 2.0 km.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Aleutians West(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Adak C-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Adak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Adak SE(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Western Aleutian Islands(hydrologic unit)

Aleutian Islands(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southwest(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge(National Wildlife Refuge)

National Wildlife Refuge FWS(Type of land area)

FWS(Federal land areas administered by FWS)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -176.69343, 51.7678
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = Secondary copper minerals found associated with a quartz-pyrite mineralized zone.
  • Age = Tertiary

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Aleutians

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Fraser and Snyder, 1959

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-NOV-1992 F.H. Wilson U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Alaska resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.