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Unnamed Near El Capitan Passage

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10003630
MRDS ID A106390
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Near El Capitan Passage

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -133.29269, 56.13362 (WGS84)
Relative position SEE LOCATION COMMENTS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Petersburg A-4 NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Petersburg S(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Petersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

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

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATE CENTER OF TWO CLAIMS STAKED IN 1962 NEAR THE NORTHEAST END OF KOSCIUSKO ISLAND (U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1980). LOCALITY 53 OF GRYBECK, KARL, AND BERG, 1984. MAY BE THE CLAIMS ON THE EL CAP GOLD VEIN DESCRIBED AS PE051.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -133.29269, 56.13362
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEE DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION COMMENTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ketchikan

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO CLAIMS STAKED FOR GOLD, LEAD, AND SILVER IN 1962; ACTIVE THROUGH 1967 BUT APPARENTLY NOT SINCE (U. S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1984).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map No. 117, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Grybeck, D. J., Berg, H. C., and Karl, S. M., 1984, Map and description of the mineral deposits in the Petersburg and eastern Port Alexander quadrangles: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-837, 86 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    Maas, K. M., Bittenbender, P. E., and Still, J. C., 1995, Mineral investigations in the Ketchikan mining district, southeastern Alaska: U. S. Bureau of Mines Open-File

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO DETAILS ARE KNOWN BEYOND THE PRESENCE OF THE CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1998 Berg, H. C. (Grybeck, D. J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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