Mamie Mine

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10100929
MRDS ID A010042
Record type Site
Current site name Mamie Mine
Alternate or previous names Brown Alaska Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -132.28236, 55.52195 (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 C-1(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
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Malachite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -132.28236, 55.52195

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Two Systems Of Folds. One Trends N10w And The Other Trends N80e. One Major Fault Which Trends N 80 E.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 121.92M
  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKES POST DATE ORE DEPOSITION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1905
Year of last production 1918

Comments on the production information

  • FIGURES ARE FROM COMBINED PRODUCTION OF MAMIE, MT. ANDREW, AND STEVENSTOWN MINES

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • USGS BULL 1090 P. 54-80

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE GLORY HOLES, THREE ADITS AND SEVERAL OTHER UNDERGROUND WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Hirschmann, M. M. (Elliott, R. L.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 12-APR-1994 Mosier, Dan 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.