Mine detail: Waterpump Creek

Previously called 'Last Hurrah'

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Location

Lat / long:

64.06944, -157.8031

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Lead, Silver
Ore:	Acanthite, Anglesite, Beudantite, Bornite, Boulangerite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Hydrozincite, Limonite, Mimetite, Plattnerite, Plumbojarosite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Sphalerite, Stannite, Argentojarosite, Fraipontite, Carminite, Hopeite, Massicot, Schultenite, Scorodite
Gangue:	Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Gypsum, Quartz, Siderite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Greenstone
Alteration processes:	Calcite and dolomite veining, manganosiderite alteration of wallrock, and replacement of dolostone wallrock by siderite.

References

MRDS	A013474
DEP	10002530
Reference	{Deposit:: Gillerman, V.S., Brewer, N.H., Millholland, M.A., and Wyman, W.F., 1986, Oxidized polymetallic gold mineralization, Illinois Creek, Alaska [abs.], in Chater, A.M., ed., Gold *6, an international symposium on the geology of gold deposits; poster paper abstracts: Geological Association of Canada, p. 51-53.}{Deposit:: Flanigan, B., 1998, Genesis and mineralization of ore deposits in the Illinois Creek region, West Central Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 125 p., 2 plates.}
Reporter	C.E. Cameron