Mine detail: Su-Lik

Previously called 'Wulik River'

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Location

Lat / long: 68.166, -163.205

Resource(B)

Primary: Lead, Zinc, Silver
Tertiary: Barium-Barite, Cadmium
Ore: Boulangerite, Bournonite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Barite
Gangue: Calcite, Dolomite
Orebody form: tabular
Discovery year: 1977

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Sandstone
Associated type:Mudstone
Alteration processes:Host rocks are intensely silicified close to the sulfides.

References

MRDSA015691
DEP10003158
Reference{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., and Henning, M.W., 1978, Barite in Alaska: Mines and Geology Bulletin, v. 27, no. 4, p. 1-4.}{Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., and Nokleberg, W.J., 1979, Metallogeny of the Brooks Range, Alaska, in Johnson, K.M., and Williams, J.R., Jr., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 804-B, p. B19-B22.}{Deposit:: Forrest, K., 1983, Geologic and isotopic studies of the Lik deposit and the surrounding mineral district, DeLong Mountains, western Brooks Range, Alaska: University of Minnesota, Ph.D. dissertation, 161 p.}{Deposit:: Eakins, G.R., Bundtzen, T.K., Robinson, M.S., Clough, J.G., Green, C.B., Clautice, K.H., and Albanese M.A., 1983, Alask* mineral industry, 1982, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Special Report 31, 63 p.}{Deposit:: Sterne, E.J., Zantop, H. and Reynolds, R.C., 1984, Clay mineralogy and carbon-nitrogen geochemistry of the Lik and Competition Creek zinc-lead-silver prospects, DeLong Mountains, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 79, p. 1406-1411.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul, CHR, DWB, Anita Williams