Mine detail: Drone Creek

Previously called 'Dc'

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Location

Lat / long: 64.8597, -145.9529

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Zinc
Ore: Arsenopyrite, Boulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

References

DEP10307239
Reference{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., 1972, Metallic mineral resources map of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-388, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Cobb, E.H., and Eberlein, G.D., 1980, Summaries of data on and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in the Big Delta and Tanacross quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1086, 77 p.}{Deposit:: Menzie, W.D., and Foster, H.L., 1979, Metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral resource potential in the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-529D, 61 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Mortenson, J.K., 1992, Pre-mid-Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Yukon-Tanana terrane, Yukon and Alaska: Tectonics, v. 11, p. 836-853.}{Deposit:: Murphy, D.C., and Abbott, G., 1995, Northern Yukon-Tanana terrane: The equivalent of Yuko* western Selwyn Basin offset along the Tintina fault? [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 5, , 26 p.}{Deposit:: Dusel-Bacon, C., Bressler, J.R., Takoaka, H., Mortenson, J.K., Oliver, D.H., Leventhal, J.S., Newberry, R.J., and Bundtzen, T.K., 1998, Stratiform zinc-lead mineralization in Nasina assemblage rocks of the Yukon-Tanana Upland in east-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-340, 26 p.}
ReporterCameron S. Rombach