Mine detail: Strelna Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 61.62076, -143.98447

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Malachite, Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Greenstone
Associated rock:Nikolai Greenstone
Associated type:Greenstone
Alteration processes:Oxidation of Cu minerals

References

MRDSA011742
DEP10001062
Reference{Deposit:: Mendenhall, W.C., 1905, Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 41, 133 p.}{Deposit:: Moffit, F.H., and Maddren, A.G., 1909, Mineral resources of the Kotsina-Chitina region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 374, 103 p.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., 1976, Mineral deposits and occurrences in the McCarthy quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-773-B, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: MacKevett, E.M., Jr., Smith, J.G., Jones, D.L., and Winkler, G.R., 1978, Geologic map of the McCarthy C-8 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1418, scale 1:63,360.}
ReporterRichter, D.H., Leonard, K.R., Elliott, R.L.