Mine detail: Greens Creek Prospect

Previously called 'Big Sore'

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Location

Lat / long:

58.07668, -134.62144

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Bismuth
Ore:	Bornite, Bournonite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Barite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1974

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Argillite
Associated type:	Serpentinite
Structure:	Anticlinorium, Overturned Anticline
Tectonic:	Back-Arc Or Strike Slip Extensional Basin
Alteration processes:	Sericite, Chlorite, Talc And Mariposite Occur In Tuffite Below The Mineralization

References

MRDS	A012083
DEP	10096784
Reference	{Deposit:: CIM BULL, V. 74, NO. 833, P. 57}{Deposit:: ADGGS SR 38, P. 18-19}{Deposit:: ADGGS SR 31, P. 18}{Deposit:: ALASKA CONSTRUCTION AND OIL, SEPT 1982, P. 44-48}{Deposit:: USGS CIRC 940, P. 29-30}{Deposit:: E AND MJ MINING ACTIVITY DIGEST, V. 11, NO. 5, P. 9}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 185, NO. 1, P. 39}{Deposit:: USGS OFR 85-717, P. 95}{Other Database:: BAG-OFR-85-717-082}
Reporter	Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Mosier, Dan, Leonard, Kenneth R. (Elliott, R. L.)