Mine detail: Windy Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.13936, -162.5933

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead, Molybdenum
Ore: Galena, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Fluorite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Hornblendite
Associated rock:Windy Creek Pluton
Associated type:Diorite,Hornblendite
Alteration processes:Alteration in the intrusive rocks includes limonite staining, weak to strong sericitization of plagioclase, and variable chloritization and sericitization of hornblende (Till and others, 1986).

References

MRDSA012754
DEP10001921
Reference{Deposit:: Miller, T.P., Elliott, R.L., Grybeck, D.J., and Hudson, T.L., 1971, Results of geochemical sampling in the northern Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 478, 12 p.}{Deposit:: Miller, T.P., Grybeck, D.J., Elliott, R.L., and Hudson, T.L., 1972, Preliminary geologic map of the eastern Solomon and southeastern Bendeleben quadrangles, eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-256, 11 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.}{Deposit:: Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson