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Alaska-Premier

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308775
MRDS ID A010228
Record type Site
Current site name Alaska-Premier
Related records 10304993, 10000191

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -130.04375, 56.02577 (WGS84)
Relative position The Alaska-Premier prospect is in Section 25 at an elevation of about 1340 feet, approximately 0.2 mile southwest of Daly Creek (Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 17, loc. 67). The location is accurate to within about 0.1 mile. Also see Additional Comments field, below.

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

Bradfield Canal A-1(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Bradfield Canal SE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bradfield Canal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

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
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • Sheared hostrocks are partly replaced by disseminated sulfides, and possibly silicified.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

(1) Canada
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in the area of the Alaska-Premier prospect are pelitic metasedimentary and subordinate andesitic (greenstone) metavolcanic strata of the Jurassic or older Mesozoic Hazelton Group; the Triassic Texas Creek Granodiorite, which underlies and locally intrudes the Hazelton; the Eocene Boundary Granodiorite, which intrudes the Hazelton and Texas Creek rocks; and still-younger Tertiary lamprophyre dikes, which cut all the other rocks (Smith, 1973, 1977, Koch, 1996). The deposit (Buddington, 1925, p. 74, 78-79; 1929, p. 85-86) is in greenstone, slate, and graywacke country rocks. It consists of sulfide-bearing quartz veinlets in shattered zones in three sheets of altered 'felsite,' which may be either quartz porphyry sills or a facies of the greenstone. The veins contain pyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite; selected samples reportedly assayed as high as 35 oz Au per ton. A 3-foot thick mineralized shear zone in a felsite sheet contains disseminated(?) pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, pyrrhotite, and arsenopyrite. Assays of some of the mineralized felsite showed about 0.097-0.145 oz Au and about 1.0 oz Ag per ton. Lead-isotope studies of galena from the Alaska-Premier prospect (Maas and others, 1995, p. 254) indicate that the deposit is Jurassic in age, contemporaneous, at least in part, with island-arc volcanism in Hazelton time (Alldrick, 1993).
  • Age = Lead-isotope studies of galena from the Alaska-Premier prospect (Maas and others, 1995, p. 254) indicate that the deposit is Jurassic in age, contemporaneous, at least in part, with island-arc volcanism in Hazelton time (Alldrick, 1993).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Hyder

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = Property was explored by open cuts and developed by more than 200 feet of underground workings, probably mostly in the 1920's. Selected samples of sulfide-rich quartz veins reportedly assayed as high as 35 oz Au per ton. Assays of some of the sheared and mineralized felsite showed about 0.097-0.145 oz Au and 1.0 oz Ag per ton.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Buddington, 1929

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Polymetallic veins
Deposit Other Comments = Property probably originally staked in early 1920's. The Alaska-Premier site probably includes the old Ready Money and Alaska claims (Cobb, 1978, p. 92-93).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-MAY-1998 H. C. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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