Mine detail: Unnamed (near headwaters of Midnight Creek)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

65.79933, -164.52342

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold, Lead
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:

Quartz veining and iron-oxide fracture fillings and staining are common. There may have been some clay development. Unoxidized mineralization probably contains pyrite and base metal sulfides.

References

DEP	10307268
Reference	{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., 1979, Igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Serpentine Hot Springs area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1079, 27 p.}{Deposit:: Hudson, T.L., and Arth, J. G., 1983, Tin-granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 768-790.}{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.}
Reporter	Travis L. Hudson