Mine detail: Red Shale

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 62.51546, -154.77888

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Zinc
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Strong ferricrete replacement of earlier sulfides.

References

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Reference{Deposit:: Babcock, L.E., Blodgett, R.B., and St. John, James, 1994, New Late(?) Proterozoic age formations in the vicinity of Lone Mountain, McGrath quadrangle, Alaska, in Till, A.B., and Moore, T.E., eds., Geological studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey 2107, p. 143-156.}{Deposit:: Decker, J., Bergman, S.C., Blodgett, R.B., Box, S.E., Bundtzen, T.K., Clough, J.G., Coonrad, W.L., Gilbert, W.G., Miller, M.L., Murphy, J.M., Robinson, M.S., and Wallace, W.K., 1994, Geology of southwestern Alaska, in Plafker, G. and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 285-310.}{Deposit:: Wilson, F.H., Dover, J.H., Bradley, D.C., Weber, F.R., Bundtzen, T.K., and Haeussler, P.J., 1998, Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-133, 17 p., 2 sheetsm, scale 1:500,000.}
ReporterT.K. Bundtzen