Mine detail: Unnamed (near headwaters of Humbolt Creek)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.80934, -164.49342

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Gold, Silver
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Siltstone
Associated rock:Donatut Granite Complex
Associated type:Granite
Alteration processes:Quartz veining and oxidation of iron-bearing sulfide minerals is common along a high angle fault zone.

References

MRDSA012728
DEP10001900
Reference{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-417, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., 1979, Igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Serpentine Hot Springs area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1079, 27 p.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Arth, J. G., 1983, Tin-granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 768-790.}{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