Mine detail: Reef Ridge

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 63.38349, -154.36694

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Silver, Lead
Tertiary: Cadmium
Ore: Cerussite, Galena, Hydrozincite, Pyrite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite, Dolomite
Discovery year: 1975

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Whirlwind Creek Formation
Host type:Dolomite
Alteration processes:Groundwater has caused all primary metallic minerals to be nearly completely oxidized to secondary minerals; i.e. pyrite has altered to ferricrete; galena has altered to cerussite, and other secondary minerals.

References

DEP10307799
Reference{Deposit:: Patton, W.W., Jr., Moll, E.J., Dutro, J.T., Jr., Silberman, M.L., and Chapman, R.M., 1980, Preliminary geologic map of Medfra quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-811-A, 1 sheet, scale l:250,000.}{Deposit:: Andrews, Tom, and Rishel, John, 1982, Annual Report for 198, Reef Ridge I-to-XIII Project Areas, Kuskokwim Block, Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, WGM Inc., Project Report 4, 45 pages, two sheets at 1:63,360 and 1:20,000 scales. (Report held by Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska.)}{Deposit:: Dutro, T.T. Jr., and Patton,W.W. Jr., 1982, New Paleozoic Formations in the northern Kuskokwim Mountains, west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1529-H, p. H13-H22.}{Deposit:: Fisher, D.G., and Juilliand, J.D., 1986, Mineral deposit types and their characteristics: U.S. Bureau of Land Management Technical Bulletin 3031-1, 134 pages.}{Deposit:: Fair, E.E., and Bright, T.D., 1989, Reef Ridge Project: Pasminco exploration report, Doyon Ltd. Report 89-23, 32 pages (Held by Doyon Ltd., Fairbanks, Alaska.)}{Deposit:: Clautice, K.H., Bowman, N.D., Clough, J.G., Gilbert, W.G., Kline, J.T., Smith, T.E., and Blodgett, R.B., 1993, Land selection Unit 8 (Kantishna River, Ruby, and Medfra quadrangles); References, lead isotope, geochemical and major oxide data: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, 42 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Schmidt, J.M., 1997, Shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag and barite deposits of Alaska, in Goldfarb, R.J., and Miller, L.D., eds., Mineral Deposits of Alaska, 1997: Economic Geology Monograph 9, p. 35-65.}
ReporterBundtzen, T.K.