Commodities
PrimaryLead, Copper, Gold, Silver
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model85: Polymetallic veins
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite
GangueLimonite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockPegmatite
AlterationOxidation of vein sulfides has occurred.
Economic & production
Development statusProspect
Identification
Deposit ID10001939
MRDS IDA012773
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates65.20739, -163.82027
References
Briskey, J.A., 1983, Summary of field observations on Seward Peninsula mineral deposits: U.S. Geological Survey, unpublished administrative report, 34 p.Till, A.B., Dumoulin, J.A., Gamble, B. ., Kaufman, D.S., and Carroll, P.I., 1986, Preliminary geologic map and fossil data,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.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.