Mine detail: Honker

Previously called ''

Location

Lat / long:

64.10643, -158.05411

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Ore:	Arsenopyrite, Bismuth, Bismuthinite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Stibnite, Scorodite, Telluride
Gangue:	Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Alteration processes:

Metasedimentary rocks are hornfelsed and silicified. Locally, the schist is altered to clay and iron-stained. Oxidation of sulfides has produced gossan.

References

DEP	10307896
Reference	Flanigan, B., 1998, Genesis and mineralization of ore deposits in the Illinois Creek region, West Central Alaska: University of Alaska, Fairbanks, M.Sc. thesis, 125 p., 2 plates.
Reporter	C.E. Cameron