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Unnamed (near El Capitan Passage)

Prospect 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10308060
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed (near El Capitan Passage)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -133.29286, 56.13373 (WGS84)
Relative position 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.

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -133.29286, 56.13373
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Geologic Description = No details are known beyond the presence of the claims.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Mining district

District name Ketchikan

Comments on the workings information

  • Workings / Exploration = 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 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 Report 11-95, 606 p.

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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Authoritative Alaska resources

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