Mine detail: Whoopee Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 68.22955, -157.85559

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Zinc
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

References

MRDSA106130
DEP10003374
Reference{Deposit:: Jansons, Uldis, and Parke, M.A., 1981, 1978 mineral investigations in the Misheguk Mountain and Howard Pass quadrangles: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 26-81, 193 p.}{Deposit:: Ellersieck, I.F., Jansons, Uldis, Mayfield, C.F., and Tailleur, I.L., 1982. The Story Creek and Whoopee Creek lead-zinc-silver occurrences, western Brooks Range, Alaska, in Coonrad, W.L., ed., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1980: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 844, p. 35-38}{Deposit:: Jansons, Uldis, 1982, Zinc-lead occurrences in and near the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report MLA 121-82, 55 p.}
ReporterJ.H. Dover, J.M. Schmidt