Mine detail: Omar

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Location

Lat / long: 67.48946, -160.8836

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Malachite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Dolomite
Alteration processes:Hydrothermal dolomitization.

References

MRDSA015621
DEP10094088
Reference{Deposit:: Degenhart, C.E., Griffis, R.J., McQuat, J.F., and Bigelow, C.G., 1978, Mineral studies of the western Brooks Range performed under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract #JO155089: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report 103-78, 529 p., 11 sheets.}{Deposit:: WGM Inc., 1980, Non-fuel mineral resource study of Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, WGM, Inc., unpublished report, 320 p. (Report held by NANA Regional Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska).}{Deposit:: Jansons, Uldis, 1982, Cobalt content in samples from the Omar copper prospect, Baird Mountains, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report MLA 109-82, 16 p.}{Deposit:: Folger, P.F., and Schmidt, J.M., 1986, Geology of the carbonate-hosted Omar copper prospect, Baird Mountains, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1690-1695.}{Deposit:: Schmidt, J.M., and Folger, P.F., 1986, Lead-zinc-silver mineralization in Paleozoic dolostones, Powdermilk prospect, Baird Mountains B-4 quadrangle: in Bartsch-Winkler, S., and Reed, K.M., eds., Geologic studies in Alaska by the USGS during 1985: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 978, p. 19-21.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 1989, Geology, Energy and Mineral Resources, Proposed Squirrel River Wild and Scenic River and adjacent area, Baird Mountains, northwest Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Division of Mineral Resources, Kobuk District, 42 p.}
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