Mine detail: Galena Creek - East

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 68.381, -141.99512

Resource(B)

Primary: Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite, Lead
Ore: Silver, Barite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Galena

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Neruokpuk Formation;Neruokpuk Formation;Neruokpuk Formation;
Host type:Greenstone
Alteration processes:Intensely propylitized locally

References

MRDSA012547
DEP10001760
Reference{Deposit:: Barker, J.C., 1978, Mineral Investigations of certain lands in the eastern Brooks Range: a summary report: US Bureau of Mines Open-File No. 63-78}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., 1977, Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska: US Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-166C, 41 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Brosge, W.P., and Reiser, H.N., 1976, Preliminary geologic and mineral resource maps (excluding petroleum), Arctic National Wildlife Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-539, 4 sheets, scale 1:500,000.}{Deposit:: Brosgi, W.P., and Reiser, H.N., 1977, Lead-zinc mineralization at Bear Mountain, southeastern Brooks Range, in Blean, K.M., ed., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1976: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 751-B, p. B8-B10}{Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey, 1977, Geological Survey research, 1977: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1050, 411 p.}{Deposit:: Hartman, D.C., 1973, Geology and mineral evaluation of the Arctic Wildlife Range, northeast Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File Report 22, 16 p., 1 over-size sheet, scale 1:500,000}{Deposit:: Brosgi, W.R., and Reiser, H.N., 1968, Geochemical maps of granitic rocks, Coleen and Table Mountain quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 323, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterK.R. Leonard, J.H. Dover, J.M. Schmidt, D.F. Huber