Crackerjack Mine

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc
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. Ore body information
  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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097484
MRDS ID A010076
Record type Site
Current site name Crackerjack Mine
Alternate or previous names Hollis, Brown-Alaska Co., Bawden, Braintree, Lane, Mcmicken, Portal

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.71431, 55.48862 (WGS84)

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 B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Craig SE(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
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ALSO AN OCCURRENCE OF UNIDENTIFIED "SULF-ANTIMONY OR BISMUTH MINERAL" (WRIGHT & WRIGHT, 1908)

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dike Is Pyritized And Epidotized

Analytical data

Result $15/TON AU & AG (1905 PRICES)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.71431, 55.48862

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Body Follows Dike

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ketchikan District

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the production information

  • MINED AT TURN OF CENTURY. NO DATA ON QUANTITY OR GRADE OF ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 762M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 QUARTZ VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.) 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.