Mine detail: Bornite, Ruby Creek

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Location

Lat / long: 67.0626, -156.9504

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Germanite, Bornite, Carrollite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Renierite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Cymrite, Barite, Dolomite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Dolomite
Alteration processes:Dolomite

References

MRDSA010661
DEP10096766
Reference{Deposit:: Bernstein, L.R., and Cox, D.P., 1986, Geology and sulfide mineralogy of the Number One ore body, Ruby Creek copper deposit, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1675-1689.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Mayfield, C.F., 1981, Summaries of data on lists of references to metallic and selected nonemetallic mineral occurrencs in the Ambler River quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-570-A, 13p.}{Deposit:: Hitzman, M.W., Profett, J.M., Jr., Schmidt, J.M., and Smith, T.E., 1986, Geology and mineralization of the Ambler district, northwestern Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 81, p. 1592-1618.}{Deposit:: Hitzman, M.W., Smith, T.E., and Proffett, J.M., Jr., 1982, Bedrock geology of the Ambler district, southwestern Brooks Range, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geologic Report 75, 2 sheets.}{Deposit:: Fritts, C.E., 1970, Geology and geochemistry of the Cosmos Hills, Ambler River and Shungnak River Quadrangles, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Geological Report 39, 63 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:63,360.}{Deposit:: Matzko, J.J., and Freeman, V.L., 1963 Summary of reconnaissance for Uranium in Alaska, 1955: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1155, p. 33-49.}{Deposit:: Mayfield, C.F. and Grybeck, D., 1978, Mineral occurrences and resource map of the Ambler river quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-120I, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Runnels, D.D., 1969, The mineralogy and sulfur isotopes of the Ruby Creek copper prospect, Bornite, Alaska: Economic Geology, v. 64, p. 75-90.}
ReporterJ.M. Schmidt, R.L. Elliott, S.W. Nelson