Mine detail: Dead Creek

Previously called 'Steptoes'

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Location

Lat / long: 67.19955, -156.50346

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead, Copper
Ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Ambler Sequence; Adggs Gr 75
Host type:Schist

References

MRDSA011888
DEP10001183
Reference{Deposit:: Degenhart, C.E., Griffis, R.J., McQuat, J.F., and Bigelow, C.G., 1978, Mineral studies of the western Brooks Range performed under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract #JO155089: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 103-78, 529 p., 11 sheets.}{Deposit:: Hitzman, M.W., Smith, T.E., and Proffett, J.M., Jr., 1982, Bedrock geology of the Ambler district, southwestern Brooks Range, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 75, 2 sheets.}{Deposit:: Mayfield, C.F. and Grybeck, D., 1978, Mineral occurrences and resource map of the Ambler river quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-120I, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterR.L. Elliott, S.W. Nelson, J.M. Schmidt, K.R. Leonard