Mine detail: Silver Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 62.73274, -144.05762

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Tetelna Formation
Host type:Hornfels
Alteration processes:Country rocks near veins are altered to carbonates and are iron-stained; hornfels in the fault zone has been argillized and pyritized.

References

MRDSA011842
DEP10001148
Reference{Deposit:: Thorne, R.L., 1946, Exploration of argentiferous lead-copper deposits of the Slana district, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 3940, 9 p.}{Deposit:: Richter, D.H., 1964, Geology and mineral deposits of the Ahtell Creek area, Slana District, south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 6, 17 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:31,680.}{Deposit:: Richter, D.H., 1966, Geology of the Slana district on south-central Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 2l, 36b p., 3 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Richter, D.H., and Matson, N.A., 1968, Distribution of gold and some base metals in the Slana area, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 593, 20 p.}{Deposit:: Richter, D.H., Lanphere, M.A., and Matson, N. A., Jr., 1975, Granite plutonism and metamorphism, Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska: Geological Society of American Bulletin, v. 86, p. 819-820.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1979, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1247, 36 p.}
ReporterC.C. Hawley, W.J. Nokleberg, W.T. Ellis