Salt Chuck

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Palladium, Platinum, Gold, Iron, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038082
MRDS ID M045359
Record type Site
Current site name Salt Chuck
Alternate or previous names Alaska Gold and Metals Co., Alaska Palladium Co, Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada, Goodro Mining Co., Joker, Koel, Palladium, Salt Chuck Mining Co., Solar Development Co, Theis

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.56848, 55.63306 (WGS84)
Relative position 36 MI N. 60 DEG WEST OF KETCHIKAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Prince of Wales-Hyder(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Craig C-2(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Craig NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Craig(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Prince of Wales(hydrologic unit)

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)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYTICAL DATA CLARK AND GREENWOOD, 1972

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyroxenes Alterted To Epidote & Chlorite

Analytical data

Result CU= 1.4%, PD= 1.010 PPM AVG, PT= .057 PPM AVG. BORNITE SHOWED .020 PPM PD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.56848, 55.63306

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Country Rock Very Fractured

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pt Metals Disseminated In Pyroxene And Gabbro

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ketchikan District

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall depth 27.43M

Comments on the workings information

  • MAP OF MINE IN WRIGHT PROF. PAPER 87, 1915, P. 99, MINE CLOSED IN 1926

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, C.W., AND PAIGE, 1908, P. 110-111 (B345)

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, F.E., AND WRIGHT, C.W., 1908, P. 125-126 (B347)

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, C.W., 1909, P. 79 (B379)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1910, P. 38 (B442)

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, 1910A, P. 141 (B442)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1911C, P. 80 (B480)

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, C. W., 1915, P. 77, 85-86, 98-99 (P87)

  • Deposit

    CHAPIN, 1916, P. 83, 85 (B642)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, S. S., 1917A, P. 29, 52 (BMB 142)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1918, P. 22 (B662)

  • Deposit

    CHAPIN, 1918A, P. 65 (B662)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1919, P. 96 (B666)

  • Deposit

    MARTIN, 1919, P. 28 (B692)

  • Deposit

    CHAPIN, 1919A, P. 86 (B692)

  • Deposit

    MARTIN, 1920, P. 23, 28 (B712)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1921, P. 18-19, 38 (B714)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS AND MARTIN, 1921, P. 69, 71 (B714)

  • Deposit

    MERTIE, 1921A, P. 121-127 (B714)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1922, P. 21, 23, 34-35 (B722)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1923, P. 13, 20 (B739)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS AND CAPPS, 1924, P. 17, 23 (B755)

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, 1925, P. 30-31 (B773)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1926, P. 20, 24-26 (B783)

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON, 1926, P. 41 (B783)

  • Deposit

    DAVIS, C. W., 1926, P. 1, 4 (RI 2731)

  • Deposit

    MOFFITB, 1927, P. 10, 25-28, 33 (B792)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1929, P. 10, 32-33, 39 (B797)

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON AND CHAPIN, 1929, P. 319, 322-323, 351, 370

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1930A, P. 13, 51-52 (B810)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1930B, P. 16, 59 (B813)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1932, P. 17, 59, 65 (B824)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1933A, P. 15, 61-62, 67-68 (B836)

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. S., 1933B, P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Alaska resources

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