Mine detail: Bowser Creek-Main

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 62.17948, -153.70282

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead, Silver
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Amphibole, Calcite, Epidote, Garnet, Hedenbergite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Alteration processes:Pyrrhotite and iron-rich sphalerite (marmatite) ubiquitously weather to a deep reddish brown gossan.

References

MRDSA015035
DEP10308920
Reference{Deposit:: Reed, B.L. and Elliott, R.L., 1968, Geochemical anomalies and metalliferous deposits between Windy Fork and Post River, southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 596, 22 pages.}{Deposit:: Williams, J.A., 1969, Report of the Division of Mines and Minerals for the year 1968: Alaska Division of Mines and Minerals Annual Report 1968, 67 p.}{Deposit:: Reed, B.L., and Lanphere, M.A., 1972, Generalized geologic map of the Alaska-Aleutian range batholith showing potassium-argon ages of the plutonic rocks: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-372, 2 sheets, scale 1:1,000,000.}{Deposit:: Bundtzen, T.K., Harris, E.E., and Gilbert, W.G., 1997, Geologic Map of the eastern McGrath quadrangle, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigations 97-14, 34 pages, one sheet, scale 1:125,000.}
ReporterT.K. Bundtzen