Location: This site represents three occurrences along a 0.3 mile stretch of the southeast shoreline of Annette Island, about 0.7 mile east of Crater Lake. The occurrences are in section 35, T. 78 S., R. 93 E., of the Copper River Meridian. The coordinates are for the approximate center of this group of occurrences. The site corresponds to loc. 7 in Berg (1972 [I 684]), loc. 153 in Elliott and others (1978), and loc. 39a-c in Karl (1992). The location is accurate within 0.1 mile.

Geology: The country rocks in the area of this site include undivided, metamorphosed Silurian and Ordovician volcanic, sedimentary, and intrusive rocks; and Silurian felsic granitic rocks that intrude the undivided assemblage (Berg, 1972). The rocks were regionally metamorphosed to greenschist-grade phyllite and semischist in Late Cretaceous time, and are intensely sheared, sericitized, and locally permeated with hydrothermal hematite. The occurrences consist of sparse sulfide pods and sulfide-bearing quartz-calcite veins in the sheared granitic rock (Berg, 1972, loc. 7; Karl, 1992, loc. 39). The metalliferous minerals occur in iron-stained zones an inch or so wide and about a foot long. Sulfides include pyrite, chalcopyrite, and traces of bornite; some of the occurrences contain a little malachite, and the sheared rocks locally contain finely disseminated hematite. Samples of sulfide-bearing granitic rock and of a pyritic quartz vein contained up to 0.41 ppm Au, 20 ppm Ag, and 2% Cu; a sample of a pyrite- and bornite-bearing quartz-calcite vein contained 0.07 ppm Au, 7 ppm Ag, 1% Cu, and 100 ppm Pb (Karl, 1992, loc. 39a-c).

Workings: Samples of sulfide-bearing granitic rock and of a pyritic quartz vein contained up to 0.41 ppm Au, 20 ppm Ag, and 2% Cu; a sample of a pyrite- and bornite-bearing quartz-calcite vein contained 0.07 ppm Au, 7 ppm Ag, 1% Cu, and 100 ppm Pb (Karl, 1992, loc. 39a-c).

Alteration: Local iron staining. Hydrothermal alteration (sericite, hematite) of country rocks.

Commodities (Major) - Cu; (Minor) - Ag, Au, Pb

Development Status: None

Deposit Model: Polymetallic veins (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c)

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