Mine detail: Unnamed (near Weyahok River)

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Location: Survey Pass County, Alaska, United States, North America
Lat / long: 67.8596, -155.28353
dep_id: 10309019
mrds_id: AO11931
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: None.
Reporter: S.W. Nelson (Anchorage, Alaska)
References:
  • Deposit:: Nelson, S.W., and Grybeck, D.J., 1980, Geologic map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-A, 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., and Nelson, S.W., 1981, Mineral deposit map of the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-F, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Cathrall, J.B., Billings, T.M., Colley, E.F., and *eary, R.M., 1981, Map showing anomalous drainage areas of selected elements in the Survey Pass quadrangle, Brooks Range, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1176-D, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
  • Deposit:: Grybeck, D.J., Cathrall, J.B., LeCompte, J.R., and Cady, J.W., 1985, Buried felsic plutons in upper Devonian redbeds, central Brooks Range, in Bartsch-Winkler, Susan, and Reed, K.M., eds., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1983: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 945, p. 8-10.
  • Deposit:: Schmidt, J.M., and Werdon, M.B., 1993, Clastic-hosted stratiform, vein/breccia and disseminated Zn-Pb-Ag deposits of the northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska; are they different expersions of dewatering of the same source basin? [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. 143.
  • 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.
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