Mine detail: Omilak

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.04242, -162.66328

Resource(M)

Primary: Antimony, Lead, Silver
Ore: Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Stibnite, Silver, Galena
Gangue: Arsenopyrite, Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Alteration processes:The deposits are variably oxidized with secondary iron oxides and lead carbonates developed.

References

MRDSA012745
DEP10100984
Reference{Deposit:: Brooks, A.H., Richardson, G. B., and Collier, A. J., 1901, Reconnaissance in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication, p. 1-180.}{Deposit:: Mendenhall, W.C., 1901, A reconnaissance in the Norton Bay region, Alaska, in 1900, in Brooks, A.H., Richardson, G.B., Collier, A.J., and Mendenhall, W.C., Reconnaissance in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900: U.S. Geological Survey Special Publication, p. 181-222.}{Deposit:: Smith, P.S. and Eakin, H.M., 1911, Mineral resources of Alaska 1910: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 480, 333 p..}{Deposit:: Mulligan, J.J., 1962, Lead-silver deposits in the Omilak area, Seard Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 6018, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic resources map of the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-417, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1975, Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Bendeleben quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-429, 123 p.}{Deposit:: Briskey, J.A., 1983, Summary of field observations on Seward Peninsula mineral deposits: U.S. Geological Survey, unpublished administrative report, 34 p.}{Deposit:: Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data, Soloman, Bendeleben, and southern Kotzebue quadrangles, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-276, 10 p., 3 plates, scale 1:250,000.}
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