Mine detail: Spruce Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 64.86738, -164.20135

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Azurite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Limestone

References

MRDSA012645
DEP10001831
Reference{Deposit:: Smith, P.S., 1908, Investigations of mineral deposits of Seward Peninsula: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 345, p. 206-250.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-445, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1978, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-181, 185 p.}{Deposit:: Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson