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Unnamed (near Lovelace Creek)

Prospect in Alaska, United States
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Nearby scientific data
  6. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  7. Mining district
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308044
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (near Lovelace Creek)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -133.52589, 56.55573 (WGS84)
Relative position A large block of several hundred claims on southern Kupreanof Island that covers the southeastern one-third of T. 61 S., R. 74 E. (U. S. Bureau of Mines, 1980). The coordinates are about the center of the claim block. Locality 23 of Grybeck, Berg, and Karl (1984); see that report and U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, for the outline of the claim block.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wade Hampton(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Petersburg C-5(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Port Alexander NE(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Petersburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Central 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Tca
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = No information has been published on the economic geology of the claim block but it is probably related to the large, vivid, orange-yellow altered zone that covers many square miles within the claim block. See PE019 for a description of this altered zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Comments on exploration

  • Status = Inactive

Mining district

District name Kupreanof

Comments on the production information

  • Production Notes = None

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • Reserves = None

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = A large block of several hundred claims staked in 1981 and active through at least 1982.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1980, Claim map, Petersburg quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Map 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.

Comments on the references

  • Primary Reference = U. S. Bureau of Mines, 1980

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-98 H.C. Berg and D.J. Grybeck U.S. Geological Survey

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