The prospect is now within the Wilderness of the Admiralty Island National Monument and is closed to mineral exploration and development.
Location: The Petunia prospect is at an elevation of about 1,000 feet, about 2.9 miles east of the south end of Jim's Lake. The prospect is 0.2 mile south of the center of sec. 9, T. 50 S., R. 70 E. It is MAS no. 0021140196 (U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2002). The location is accurate within 0.2 mile.
Geology: This prospect is at or near the contact between a unit of undifferentiated Permian and Triassic, volcanic rocks, argillite, and chert and an undifferentiated unit of Paleozoic and Mesozoic metamorphic rocks (Lathram and others, 1965). The only information available about this prospect is that a claim was staked by WGM Inc. for an unspecified commodity (U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2002).
Workings: The only information available for this prospect is that a claim was staked on it.
Age: Paleozoic or younger.
Development Status: None

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References

Lathram, E.H., Pomeroy, J.S., Berg, H.C., and Loney, R.A., 1965, Reconnaissance geology of Admiralty Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1181-R, p. R1-R48. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 2002, Alaska mineral locations database report (Sitka quadrangle), July 2, 2002, 205 p. [http://imcg.wr.usgs.gov/dem.html]

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