Mine detail: Billiken

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Location

Lat / long:

65.68938, -162.49336

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Magnetite
Gangue:	Clinohumite, Diopside, Dolomite, Idocrase, Olivine, Phlogopite, Pyrite, Serpentine

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Kugruk pluton
Alteration processes:	Mg-bearing silicate minerals have been serpentinized and phlogopite is well-developed.

References

MRDS	A012684
DEP	10001865
Reference	Hudson, T.L., Miller, M. L., and Pickthorn, W. J., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-796-B, 46 p., one sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
Reporter	Travis L. Hudson