Hubbard and Elliott Prospect, Prince William Sound Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Hubbard and Elliott Prospect	Prospect
Prince William Sound Mining District	Mining District
Valdez-Cordova Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

Location: The prospect is located in a stream gully below lake 925 at an elevation between 830 and 860 feet. This is in the SW1/4 section 6, T. 2 N., R. 10 E., of the Seward Meridian. This is location 231 of Tysdal (1978 [MF-880-A]) and location S-49 of Jansons and others (1984). This location is accurate to within 300 feet.
Geology: The prospect is hosted in a moderately sheared, medium-grained greenstone lens within fine-grained greenstone and finely laminated, tuffaceous sedimentary rock. Nelson and others (1985) identified the greenstone as Orca Group of early Teriary age. Several shear zones, as much as 10 feet wide, cut the greenstone. They are part of a larger shear zone system that trends north-northeast and dips nearly vertically. This system is about half a mile wide and 5 miles long (Nelson and others, 1985). Chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite occur as blebs in a basalt dike and within quartz-epidote veins. The relationship between shearing and mineralization is unclear. Sulfide minerals are found in numerous quartz veins in shears zones and impregnating the country rock (Cobb and Tysdal, 1980). Pyrrhotite is the dominant sulfide; traces of chalcopyrite and pyrite are also present. Two adits were driven along shear zones; the 10-foot-long south adit is at an elevation of 860 feet, and the 63-foot-long north adit is at an elevation of 830 feet. The U.S. Bureau of Mines collected a total of nine samples, seven from the adits and two from within 80 feet east of the south adit. They contained between 75 ppm and 0.24 percent copper and as much as 0.7 percent nickel Kurtak and Jeske, 1986).
Workings: The workings on the prospect consist of two short adits. The lower (south) adit is at an elevation of 830 feet and follows a south-trending shear zone for a distance of 10 feet. The 63-foot-long upper (north) adit is at an elevation of 860 feet and strikes N23E. The U.S. Bureau of Mines collected seven samples from the adits and two from within 80 feet east of the south adit. They contained between 75 ppm and 0.24 percent copper and as much as 0.7 percent nickel (Kurtak and Jeske, 1986).
Age: Tertiary or younger; the occurrence is in rocks of the Orca Group of Tertiary age.

Commodities (Major) - Cu; (Minor) - Ni
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Cyprus massive sulfide (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 24a)

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