Mine detail: Smucker

Previously called 'Charlie, Patti, Puzzle, Ambler 4-B'

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Location

Lat / long:

67.29148, -157.17043

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Owyheeite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Calcite, Chlorite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Ambler Group;Ambler Group
Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Ambler Group;Ambler Group;Ambler Group
Associated type:	Marble
Alteration processes:	No hydrothermal alteration of wall rock evident.

References

MRDS	A011883
DEP	10001180
Reference	{Deposit:: Eakins, G.R., Bundtzen, T.K., Lueck, L.L. Green, C.B., Gallagher, J.L., and Robinson, M.S., 1985, Alaska mineral industry, 1984: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 38, 57p.}{Deposit:: Hitzman, M.W., Profett, J.M., Jr., Schmidt, J.M., and Smith, T.E., 1986, Geology and mineralization of the Ambler district, northwestern Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1592-1618.}
Reporter	R.L. Elliott, J.M. Schmidt, S.W. Nelson, K.R. Leonard