Mine detail: Unnamed (south of upper Windy Creek)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

63.4596, -149.14284

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite
Gangue:	Calcite, Diopside, Wollastonite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Diorite
Alteration processes:	Skarn and subsequent weathering and oxidation.

References

MRDS	A011375
DEP	10000736
Reference	{Deposit:: Hickman, R.G., and Craddock, Campbell, 1976, Mineral occurrences near Cantwell, southcentral Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report 13, 7 p.}{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.}
Reporter	N. Van Wyck