Mine detail: Arctic

Previously called 'Arctic Camp'

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Location

Lat / long: 67.18066, -156.38957

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite, Tennantite
Gangue: Arsenopyrite, Barite, Calcite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Talc

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Ambler Sequence
Host type:Schist
Alteration processes:Chlorite-rich rocks in footwall and surrounding the sulfides form an alteration zone containing a complex assemblage of barian fluorphlogopite, talc, Mg-chlorite, barite, phengite, quartz, and calcite (Schmidt, 1986).

References

MRDSA011889
DEP10001184
Reference{Deposit:: Bottge, R.G., 1975, Impact of a natural gas pipeline on mineral and energy development in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 20-75.}{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:: Dillon, J.T., Pessel, G.H., Chen, J.H., and Veach, N.C., 1979, Tectonic and economic significance of late Devonian and late Proterozoic U-Pb zircon ages from Brooks Range, Alaska: in Short Notes on Alaskan Geology, 1978: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 61, p. 36-41.}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., and Nokleberg, W.J., 1979, Metallogeny of the Brooks Range, Alaska, in Johnson, K.M., and Williams, J.R., Jr., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 804-B, p. B19-B22.}{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.}{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.}
ReporterJ.M. Schmidt, S.W. Nelson, R.L. Elliott, K.R. Leonard