Schultze Prospect, Nizina Mining District, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, USAi

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Schultze Prospect	Prospect
Nizina Mining District	Mining District
Valdez-Cordova Census Area	Census Area
Alaska	State
USA	Country

The locality is in the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.
Location: This prospect is on the steep west valley wall of the Nizina River, north of Park Gulch. It is at an elevation of about 4,600 feet, 2,800 feet south of elevation 5720 and about 2,000 feet north-northwest of the center of section 12, T. 5 S., R. 15 E. of the Copper River Meridian. This is locality 74 of MacKevett (1976); the location is accurate to within a few hundred feet.
Geology: The deposit at this prospect consists of a small chalcocite-rich pod and chalcocite-bearing stringers in the lower part of the Triassic Chitistone Limestone (MacKevett, 1976). The prospect was explored by two short adits. Copper mineralization is widespread in the lower Chitistone Limestone. It is thought to have accompanied regional deformation and low-grade metamorphism in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (MacKevett and others, 1997).
Workings: The prospect was explored by two short adits.
Age: Cretaceous? Copper mineralization is widespread in the lower Chitistone Limestone. It is thought to have accompanied regional deformation and low-grade metamorphism in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (MacKevett and others, 1997).

Commodities (Major) - Cu
Development Status: None
Deposit Model: Basaltic Cu (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 23) and/or Kennecott-type copper depos

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Link to USGS - Alaska:	MC137

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