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Locality Name:
Kasaan Peninsula, Prince Of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince Of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USA

Oldest recorded age at locality: 105
Youngest recorded age at locality: 105

mindat Locality ID: 239917
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-239917.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Kasaan Peninsula, Prince Of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince Of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USA": 26
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 24

Number of Child Localities: 24
Child Localities:
Alarm Mine
Big Five Prospect
Big Six Prospect
Brown And Metzdorf Mine
Cachelot Prospect
Charles Prospect
Copper Center Prospect
Copper Queen Prospect
Haida Mine (Hyda Mine; Mammoth Mine)
Iron Cap Prospects
It Mine (Reed Mine)
Mamie Mine
Mount Andrew Mine
Poor Man Creek
Poorman Mine (Copper King; Morning Star; Blackbird; Kansas Mine)
Rich Hill Mine
Salt Chuck Mine (Stevens; Liebrant; Goodro; Joker Mine)
Stevens Prospect
Stevenstown Mine
Tacoma; Peacock Prospects
Tolstoi Mountain
Uncle Sam; Elm City Mine
Unnamed Prospects (ARDF - CR062)
Wallace; Muckers Dream; Tolstoi Prospect

Latitude: 55°34'12"N
Longitude: 132°23'32"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 55.57,-132.39222222222

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Amphibole	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Clinozoisite	Copper	Corundum	Covellite
Digenite	Epidote	Isomertieite	Mica	Molybdenite	Nickeline	None	Pyrite	Pyroxene	Quartz
Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Spinel	Tetrahedrite

Actinolite ()*	Altaite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bornite ()*
Calcite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Copper ()*	Covellite ()*
Digenite ()*	Diopside ()*	Epidote ()*	Galena ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Hessite ()*	Isomertieite ()*	Kotulskite ()*	Magnesio-hastingsite ()*
Magnetite ()*	Molybdenite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyrrhotite ()*
Quartz ()*	Sopcheite ()*	Sperrylite ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Stibiopalladinite ()*
Temagamite ()*	Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ag Al As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cu Fe H Hg K Mg Mo Na O Pb Pd Pt S Sb Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Amphibole Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Clinozoisite Copper Corundum Covellite
Digenite Epidote Isomertieite Mica Molybdenite Nickeline None Pyrite Pyroxene Quartz
Rocksalt Sphalerite Spinel Tetrahedrite

32 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Actinolite ()*	Amphibole	Ca₂(Mg_4.5-2.5Fe²⁺_0.5-2.5)Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂	105	105	1	133220	3419
Altaite ()*	Rocksalt	PbTe	105	105	1	133220	489
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	105	105	1	133225	9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	105	105	1	133227	11547
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	105	105	3	133217,133220,133221	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	105	105	17	133203,133205,133206,133209,133210,133211,133212,133213,133214,133215,133217,133218,133220,133222,133226,133227,133228	27770
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	105	105	1	133220	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	105	105	22	133203,133204,133205,133206,133207,133208,133209,133210,133211,133212,133213,133214,133215,133217,133218,133219,133220,133222,133223,133226,133227,133228	27198
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	105	105	1	133205	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	105	105	1	133220	4165
Digenite ()*	Digenite	Cu_1.8S	105	105	1	133220	1027
Diopside ()*	Pyroxene	CaMgSi₂O₆	105	105	2	133212,133217	4135
Epidote ()*	Epidote Clinozoisite	Ca₂(Al₂Fe³⁺)[Si₂O₇][SiO₄]O(OH)	105	105	15	133203,133206,133209,133210,133211,133212,133213,133214,133215,133217,133220,133222,133223,133226,133228	8173
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	105	105	2	133220,133227	24243
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	105	105	1	133220	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	105	105	3	133217,133220,133228	14640
Hessite ()*	None	Ag₂Te	105	105	1	133220	804
Isomertieite ()*	Isomertieite	Pd₁₁Sb₂As₂	105	105	1	133220	48
Kotulskite ()*	Nickeline	Pd(Te,Bi)_2-x (x ≈ 0.4)	105	105	1	133220	116
Magnesio-hastingsite ()*	Amphibole	NaCa₂(Mg₄Fe³⁺)(Si₆Al₂)O₂₂(OH)₂	105	105	1	133220	80
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	105	105	18	133203,133204,133206,133208,133209,133210,133212,133213,133214,133215,133217,133218,133219,133220,133222,133223,133226,133228	14899
Molybdenite ()*	Molybdenite	MoS₂	105	105	2	133206,133223	5800
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	105	105	1	133220	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	105	105	18	133203,133205,133206,133208,133209,133210,133211,133212,133214,133215,133217,133218,133219,133220,133222,133225,133226,133228	39462
Pyrrhotite ()*	Nickeline	Fe₇S₈	105	105	3	133204,133212,133220	9056
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	105	105	10	133203,133207,133209,133212,133213,133217,133218,133225,133227,133228	61156
Sopcheite ()*	None	Ag₄Pd₃Te₄	105	105	1	133220	24
Sperrylite ()*	Pyrite	PtAs₂	105	105	1	133220	337
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	105	105	1	133227	21482
Stibiopalladinite ()*	None	Pd₅Sb₂	105	105	1	133220	75
Temagamite ()*	None	Pd₃HgTe₃	105	105	1	133220	24
Tetrahedrite-(Zn) ()*	Tetrahedrite	Cu₆(Cu₄Zn₂)Sb₄S₁₃	105	105	1	133227	5317

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	Mo-00051	105	105								Yes		Molybdenite	Mo	3290	Prince Of Wales Island, Ketchikan District, Prince Of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, USA	Prince of Wales Island	G. Gehrels; personal communications

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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