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Sharon

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
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  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10307657
Record type Site
Current site name Sharon

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -131.51977, 55.33074 (WGS84)
Relative position This prospect is known only from U.S. Bureau of Mines (1977) claim records. Its approximate location is at an elevation of about 100 feet on Whitman Creek, about 0.3 mile north of the mouth of Herring Bay. The site is in section 25, T. 75 S., R. 91 E., of the Copper River Meridian. It corresponds to loc. 75 in Elliott and others (1978). The location is accurate within about 0.2 mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ketchikan Gateway(Borough)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ketchikan B-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Ketchikan SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ketchikan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ketchikan(hydrologic unit)

Southern Southeast Alaska(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southeast Alaska(hydrologic subregion)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -131.51977, 55.33074
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in this part of Revillagigedo Island are mainly marine, andesitic or basaltic metavolcanic rocks and interbedded pelitic metasedimentary rocks that are intruded by Cretaceous sills and dikes of feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite, and by a stock of Tertiary gabbro (Berg and others, 1988). The strata and some of the granodiorite were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade in Late Cretaceous time, and subsequently remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near the contacts of the gabbro stock. The premetamorphic age of the strata is uncertain. Berg and others (1988) note that they closely resemble Upper Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous flysch and volcanic rocks nearby on Gravina Island. . According to U.S. Bureau of Mines claim records (1977), this prospect, which appears to be in metasedimentary rocks near the contact of the gabbro stock, was staked for copper and zinc. No other information about it has been made public.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Mining district

District name Ketchikan

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Elliott and others, 1978; Berg and others, 1988

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-JUL-99 H.C. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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