1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Iron Cap

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10000206
MRDS ID A010243
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Cap

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -130.21565, 56.06783 (WGS84)
Relative position The Iron Cap prospect is at the south boundary of Section 11 at an elevation of about 3850 feet on a south-facing mountainside overlooking the West Fork of Texas Creek, and about 1.8 mile east-northeast of the outlet of Texas Lake (Elliott and Koch, 1981, p. 14, loc. 45). The location is accurate to within about a quarter of a mile.

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
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Arsenopyrite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Slate and graywacke country rocks are impregnated with sulfide minerals.

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Texas Creek
    Rock description Texas Creek
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Rock unit name Hazelton Group
    Rock description Hazelton Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -130.21565, 56.06783
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in the area of the Iron Cap prospect are pelitic metasedimentary and subordinate andesitic metavolcanic strata of the Jurassic or older Mesozoic Hazelton Group, which is underlain and locally intruded by the Triassic Texas Creek Granodiorite (Smith, 1977; Koch, 1996).? the deposit (Buddington, 1929, p. 44, 98) consists of an 11-foot zone of slate and fine-grained tuffaceous graywacke containing stringers and veins of sulfides, and a 2-foot quartz-calcite vein carrying pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and a little arsenopyrite. The deposit, which is about 100 feet above the contact of the Texas Creek Granodiorite, is approximately parallel to the bedding in the slate and graywacke hostrocks. A sample (Buddington, 1925, p. 95) assayed 0.04 oz Au and 6.28 oz Ag per ton, and 2% Cu.

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 = Deposit was explored in 1920's by an opencut 12 feet wide. A sample (Buddington, 1925, p. 95) assayed 0.04 oz Au and 6.28 oz Ag per ton, and 2% Cu.

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 = Prospect originally staked in 1923.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Alaska resources

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