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Salve

Prospect in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  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 10001587
MRDS ID A012343
Record type Site
Current site name Salve

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -131.19676, 55.37281 (WGS84)
Relative position The Salve claim is at or near sea level along the shoreline of Thorne Arm, about 0.45 mile northwest of the mouth of Gokachin Creek. The site is in section 18, T. 75 S., R. 94 E., of the Copper River Meridian. It corresponds to loc. 90 in Elliott and others (1978). The location is accurate within 0.1 mile.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ketchikan B-4 SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ketchikan SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ketchikan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Federal lands

Tongass National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest UND(Type of land area)

UND(Federal land areas administered by UND)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Material = Auriferous pyrite
  • Ore Material = Auriferous pyrite

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -131.19676, 55.37281
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = The country rocks in this part of Revillagigedo Island are marine, interbedded, andesitic and basaltic metavolcanic rocks and subordinate pelitic metasedimentary rocks that are intruded by stocks, sills, and dikes of Cretaceous feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite (Berg and others, 1988). The strata and some of the granodiorite were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist grade in Late Cretaceous time. These regionally metamorphosed rocks subsequently were locally remetamorphosed to hornblende hornfels near the contacts of Cretaceous granodiorite plutons that were emplaced after the regional metamorphism. The premetamorphic age of the strata is uncertain. Berg and others (1988) assign them a Mesozoic or (late) Paleozoic age. Berg (1982) and Crawford and others (in press) assign them to the Gravina belt, of Late Jurassic or Cretaceous age, or to the Taku terrane, of late Paleozoic to Late Triassic age. The metamorphic and intrusive rocks locally are overlain by basalt and andesite lava flows of Quaternary or Tertiary age.? the deposit consists of a band of sericitic schist that contains a few stringers of quartz (Wright and Wright, 1908, p. 148). The schist strikes NW and dips steeply NE. It is folded and faulted, and cut by dikes of feldspar-porphyritic granodiorite that strike NE, and apparently postdate at least some of the quartz stringers. The quartz contains pyrite, which probably also is sparsely disseminated in the schist. The prospect was explored in the early 1900s by an opencut and test pit.
  • Age = The veins may have formed during Cretaceous regional metamorphism, but before intrusion of Cretaceous granodiorite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name Ketchikan

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = The prospect was explored in the early 1900s by an opencut and test pit.

Reference information

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = Wright and Wright, 1908

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Model Name = Low-sulfide Au-quartz veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 36a)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-JUL-1999 H.C. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

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