Mine detail: Unnamed (Tupik Creek area)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

67.50959, -155.08348

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tin, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Molybdenite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Mt. Igikpak Pluton
Host type:	Gneiss
Alteration processes:	Metasomatic alteration related to contact metamorphism: calc-silicate minerals, sulfides and quartz.

References

MRDS	A011927
DEP	10001214
Reference	{Deposit:: Garland, R.E., Eakins, G.R., Trible, T.C., 1975, Geochemical analysis of rock and stream-sediment samples from Survey Pass C-4 quadrangle: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 63, 4 p, 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., and Nelson, S.W., 1981, Mineral deposit map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-F, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Newberry, R.J., Dillon, J.T., and Adams, D.D., 1986, Regionally metamorphosed calc-silicate-hosted deposits of the Brooks Range, northern Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1728-1752}
Reporter	S.W. Nelson