Mine detail: Unnamed (in headwaters of Niukluk River)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.18933, -163.84332

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Epidote, Garnet, Mica, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:The epidote-garnet skarn appears to have an overprinting hydrous alteration of mica, actinolite, and chlorite. Limonitic staining is present.

References

MRDSA012771
DEP10001937
Reference{Deposit:: 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.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Wyman, W. F., 1983, Interim report on areas of Seward Peninsula warranting further prospecting and evaluation: Anchorage, Anaconda Minerals Company internal report, 84 p., 7 plates. (Report held by Cook Inlet Region Inc., Anchorage, Alaska.)}{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