Alaska
Occurrence

Red Shale

Alaska, United States
ZincLeadCopper
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Commodities
PrimaryZinc, Lead
SecondaryCopper
Deposit
Model208: Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb224: Mississippi Valley, S.E. Missouri Pb-Zn
Materials
GangueCalcite, Quartz
Geology
AlterationStrong ferricrete replacement of earlier sulfides.
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10307828
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates62.51546, -154.77888
References
Babcock, L.E., Blodgett, R.B., and St. John, James, 1994, New Late(?) Proterozoic age formations in the vicinity of Lone Mountain, McGrath quadrangle, Alaska, in Till, A.B., and Moore, T.E., eds., Geological studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey 2107, p. 143-156.Decker, J., Bergman, S.C., Blodgett, R.B., Box, S.E., Bundtzen, T.K., Clough, J.G., Coonrad, W.L., Gilbert, W.G., Miller, M.L., Murphy, J.M., Robinson, M.S., and Wallace, W.K., 1994, Geology of southwestern Alaska, in Plafker, G. and Berg, H.C., eds., The Geology of Alaska: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-1, p. 285-310.Wilson, F.H., Dover, J.H., Bradley, D.C., Weber, F.R., Bundtzen, T.K., and Haeussler, P.J., 1998, Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-133, 17 p., 2 sheetsm, scale 1:500,000.