Mine detail: Unnamed (in headwaters of Surprise Creek)

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 64.79832, -164.13028

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Gangue: Chlorite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Alteration processes:Oxidized; iron-stained.

References

DEP10308298
Reference{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.}{Deposit:: Gamble, B.M., 1988, Non-placer mineral occurrences in the Solomon, Bendeleben, and southern part of the Kotzebue quadrangles, western Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Map MF-1838-B, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.}
ReporterTravis L. Hudson