Mine detail: Unnamed (near Omilak Creek)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.02936, -162.5633

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead
Ore: Cerussite
Gangue: Limonite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Oxidation of sulfide minerals.

References

MRDSA012747
DEP10001915
Reference{Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., 1962, Lead-silver deposits in the Omilak area, Seard Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6018, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Briskey, J.A., 1983, Summary of field observations on Seward Peninsula mineral deposits: U.S. Geological Survey, unpublished administrative report, 34 p.}{Deposit:: Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil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