Mine detail: Sheep Creek-West

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Location

Lat / long: 62.33948, -153.81174

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Ore: Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Epidote, Garnet

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Argillite
Alteration processes:Sulfides are highly oxidized with conspicuous cerrusite, iron oxides, and malachite replacements.

References

MRDSA015029
DEP10002592
Reference{Deposit:: Reed, B.L. and Elliott, R.L., 1968, Geochemical anomalies and metalliferous deposits between Windy Fork and Post River, southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 596, 22 pages.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Kline, J.T., and Clough, J.G., 1982, Preliminary geologic map of the McGrath B-2 quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Open-File report 149, 22 pages, one sheet, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Harris, E.E., and Gilbert, W.G., 1997, Geologic Map of the eastern McGrath quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 97-14, 34 pages, one sheet, scale 1:125,000.}
ReporterT.K. Bundtzen