Mine detail: Mayflower

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Location

Lat / long: 63.21569, -149.64589

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Gold, Silver
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Gangue: Ankerite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:Alteration consists of a combination of skarn (epidote, garnet and actinolite), silica flooding, ankerite, pyrite and sericite. Limonite and uncommon chalcocite are oxidation and supergene mineral assemblages.

References

MRDSA011323
DEP10000694
Reference{Deposit:: Berg, H.C., and Cobb, E.H., 1967, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1246, 254 p.}{Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., Warfield, R.S., and Wells, R.R., 1967, Sampling a gold-copper deposit, Golden Zone Mine, south-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 9-67, 59 p.}{Deposit:: Hawley, C.C., and Clark, A.L., 1974, Geology and mineral deposits of the upper Chulitna district, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 758-B, p. 1-47, 2 sheets, scale 1:12,000 and 1:48,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Healy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-1062, 113 p.}
ReporterN. Van Wyck